Reginald Frederick Lawrence

Reginald Frederick Lawrence
Born (1897-03-06)6 March 1897
George, Western Cape
Died 9 October 1987(1987-10-09) (aged 90)
Pietermaritzburg
Nationality South Africa
Fields Arachnology, Myriapodology
Institutions Natal Museum
Alma mater South African College
Spouse Ella Thompson Pratt Yule

Reginald Frederick Lawrence FRSSAf (born 6 March 1897, George, Western Cape - died 9 October 1987, Pietermaritzburg) was a South African arachnologist and myriapodologist at the South African Museum in Cape Town from 1922 until 1935, director of the Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg from 1935 until 1948 and a researcher and staff member of the same museum until 1986.

Career

Lawrence was educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown from 1908 to 1913. He studied at the South African College (now University of Cape Town), where he graduated with his B.Sc. in 1922. His studies had been interrupted by World War I, when he served with the infantry in France.

He joined the staff of the South African Museum in 1922 as assistant in charge of Arachnida. While in the staff of the museum, he made several collecting expeditions in the southern part of the continent. His collection of rachnids formed the basis for the research upon which he received his Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town in 1928.

He was appointed director of the Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg in 1935, a position he gave up in 1948 in order to spend more time on research. He collected in forests from the southern Cape to the Limpopo River, and from the coast of the Indian Ocean in the east, to Drakensberg in the west. He also collected in Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, South-West Africa, and Zimbabwe (then southern Rhodesia).

Personal life

Lawrence married Ella Thompson Pratt Yule.

Publications

The following list is from Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro.[1]

References

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