| 词条 | Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell |
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Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell (20 June 1877 – 8 November 1918), the biologist, physician and author, was the only son of the architect Herbert Spurrell and Harriet Rebecca Blaxland. He was a nephew of the archaeologist Flaxman Charles John Spurrell and a member of the Spurrell family of Norfolk. A student of Gustav Mann, Spurrell went on to discover and classify fish, reptiles and frogs from the Gold Coast and South America, and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. Among the species named after him are Spurrell's free-tailed bat and Spurrell's woolly bat. He is also commemorated in the scientific names of three species of reptiles (Amphisbaena spurrelli, Kinosternon spurrelli, and Micrurus spurrelli)[1] and two amphibians (Atelopus spurrelli and Agalychnis spurrelli). During the First World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps; he died of pneumonia at Alexandria, Egypt, on 8 November 1918.[2] He was also the author of a number of books, both scientific and fictional:
References1. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Spurrell", p. 250). 2. ^{{cite web|title=RAMC profile of: Herbert George Flaxman SPURRELL M.A., M.B., B.Ch.|url=http://www.ramc-ww1.com/profile.php?cPath=292_585&profile_id=8648&osCsid=7326968b669af351338a02e2ea3dc7c1|website=RAMC in the Great War|accessdate=26 February 2016}} }} Obituary, The British Medical Journal, 30 November 1918 {{DEFAULTSORT:Spurrell, Herbert George Flaxman}} 7 : 1877 births|1918 deaths|English zoologists|Fellows of the Zoological Society of London|British Army personnel of World War I|Royal Army Medical Corps officers|Alumni of Merton College, Oxford |
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