Major Stanley S. Flower (1 Viewer)

Melanie

Well-known member

• Jun 17, 2017

• #1

Who was Major Stanley S. Flower after whom the Fayum Sandgrouse was named?

See Michael John Nicoll: Description of a new subspecies of Sand-Grouse (Pterocles senegalensis floweri) from Upper Egypt In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club vol. 41, 1921.

 

l_raty

laurent raty

• Jun 17, 2017

• #2

http://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/floweri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Smyth_Flower

 

Melanie

Well-known member

• Jun 17, 2017

• #3

l_raty said:

http://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/floweri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Smyth_Flower

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Thank you. I've found these information too after I've started this thread. So there is left one more question. Was there a direct connection between Michael John Nicoll and Stanley S. Flower?

 

Taphrospilus

Well-known member

• Jun 18, 2017

• #4

There is a good chance that Flower collect the specimen (as he was around 1919 in Egypt). The Hartert or Neumann descriptions refered by Nicoll seems to be no help. I am not sure if Neumann published again something about this topic in 1919.

 

Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")

• Jun 18, 2017

• #5

Melanie said:

Was there a direct connection between Michael John Nicoll and Stanley S. Flower?

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I assume there was, it sure looks like it ... see, for example, here (see p. 24).

 

Melanie

Well-known member

• Jun 18, 2017

• #6

Calalp said:

I assume there was, it sure looks like it ... see, for example, here (see p. 24).

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Thank you. This is a good hint.

By the way there at least three mammal species from Africa that were named after Flower

Gerbillus (Gerbillus) floweri
Crocidura floweri
Eptesicus (Rhinopterus) floweri

 

Last edited: Jun 18, 2017