| 词条 | Edward Percy Stebbing |
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Prof Edward Percy Stebbing FRSE FRGS FZS (4 January 1872 – 21 March 1960) was a pioneering British forester and forest entomologist in India. He was among the first to warn of desertification and desiccation and wrote on "The encroaching Sahara". In 1935, he wrote of the "desert whose power is incalculable and whose silent and almost invisible approach must be difficult to estimate." He suggested that this was man-made and this led to a joint Anglo-French forestry mission from December 1936 to February 1937 that toured northern Nigeria and Niger to assess the danger of desertification.[1] LifeHe was born in London on 4 January 1872 the son of Edward Charles Stebbing (b.1839). He was educated at St Paul's School, London. He then studied at the Royal Engineering College and Coopers Hill College (which specialised in training for the Indian Civil Service). He then studied at Edinburgh University where he graduated MA. From 1900 to 1910 he worked as Forest Entomologist and Zoologist for the Indian Civil Service. In 1910 he returned to Edinburgh University as Professor of Forestry. He lived at 13 Wolseley Place with his brother.[2] In the First World War he was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps.[3] In 1923 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Ralph Allan Sampson, Arthur Crichton Mitchell and James Hartley Ashworth.[4] He retired in 1951 and died on 21 March 1960. FamilyIn 1907 he married Maude Evelyn Brown (d.1950). Works
Botanical Reference{{botanist|Stebbing|Stebbing}}References1. ^van Beusekom, Monica M (1999) From underpopulation to overpopulation. Environmental History. Apr 1999 2. ^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1911 3. ^https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4240837 4. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 5. ^{{Citation |publisher = John Lane |publication-place = London |title = At the Serbian front in Macedonia |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6605417M/At_the_Serbian_front_in_Macedonia |author = Stebbing, Edward Percy |publication-date = 1917 |oclc = 313792 }} External links{{Sister project links| wikt=no | commons=no | b=no | n=no | q=no | s=Author:Edward Percy Stebbing | v=no | voy=no | species=no | d=no}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Stebbing, Edward Percy}}{{UK-biologist-stub}} 6 : 1872 births|1960 deaths|British entomologists|Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society|Academics of the University of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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