John Traherne Moggridge

John Traherne Moggridge
Born (1842-03-08)March 8, 1842
Swansea, Wales
Died November 24, 1874(1874-11-24) (aged 32)
Menton, France
Nationality British
Fields Botany, entomology
Education King's School, Sherborne
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Author abbrev. (botany) Moggr.

John Traherne Moggridge (8 March 1842 – 24 November 1874) was a British botanist, entomologist, and arachnologist. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he was known as a keen naturalist with great observational skills,[1] as well as his paintings and illustrations. He wrote several articles on the fertilization of plants, and his paintings of plants of southern France appeared in Contributions to the Flora of Mentone. His two volume study, Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders, among other observations, confirmed that harvester ants are present in Europe,[2] and was one of the first comprehensive treatments of the burrowing behavior of trapdoor spiders.[3] He was a correspondent of Charles Darwin,[4] who cited his work in his books Fertilisation of Orchids and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.

Moggridge was born in Swansea, Wales to a family already steeped in natural history. His father, Matthew Moggridge, was a naturalist and geologist, a Fellow of the Linnean, Geological and Zoological Societies, while his mother, Fanny Moggridge, was the daughter of Lewis Weston Dillwyn, a naturalist and member of parliament.[5][6] John attended King's School, Sherborne (now known as Sherborne School) in Dorset and in 1861 enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, but health problems interrupted his studies, causing him to relocate to the warmer climate of Menton, France, in the Provence region of southern France.[7][8]

He died in Menton of tuberculosis in 1874 at the age of 32, following a lengthy period of invalidity.[6] He was posthumously commemorated in the genus name Moggridgea, a group of spiders named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, who also named a species of nemesiid spider (Nemesia moggridgii, now N. carminans) after Moggridge.[9]

Books

The standard author abbreviation Moggr. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[10]

Illustrations

References

  1. ↑ "Supplement to Harvesting Ants and Trap-door Spiders. By J. Traherne Moggridge (Reeve & Co.)". The Athenæum (2464): 86–87. 16 January 1875.
  2. ↑ Waldbauer, Gilbert (2009). What Good Are Bugs? Insects in the Web of Life. Harvard University Press. pp. 50–55. ISBN 978-0-674-04474-6.
  3. ↑ Gertsch, Willis J. (1949). "Chapter VII: The Tarantulas". American Spiders. New York: Van Nostrand. p. 110.
  4. ↑ Frances Darwin, ed. (1897). The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter. D. Appleton. pp. 450–451.
  5. ↑ "Bradford People: John Hodder Moggridge". bradfordonavonmuseum.co.uk. Bradford on Avon Museum. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  6. 1 2 Gardeners' Chronicle & New Horticulturist. Haymarket Publishing. 1874. p. 723.
  7. ↑ Simon, Eugène (1875). "Notice nécrologique sur J.-T. Moggridge". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. Series 5 (in French) (5): 5–8.
  8. ↑ Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-1-108-03614-6.
  9. ↑ Pickard-Cambridge, Octavius (1875). "On a new genus and species of trap-door spider from South Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16: 317–322. doi:10.1080/00222937508681860.
  10. ↑ "Author Query for 'Moggr.'". International Plant Names Index.

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