Hirst papers

Arthur Stanley HIRST - papers on Opiliones

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Arthur Stanley HIRST

Birthdate: 1883

Birthplace: Hackney

Died: 4 May 1930, Indian Ocean

BIOGRAPHY: Né en 1883 à Hackney, où son père exerçait la médecine, il fit ses études à Merchant Taylor's School, et étudia la zoologie à l'University College à Londres; le 26 octobre 1905, il entre comme assistant au British Museum dans le service mammalogique, mais peu après il est chargé des collections d'Arachnides et Myriapodes. Avec le matériel abondant qu'il eut à sa disposition, il travailla surtout sur les Acariens et fit aussi quelques travaux sur les Araignées d'Australie, des îles de l'Océan Indien, des Indes et d'Afrique. Mais en 1927, sa mauvaise santé l'obligea à quitter le Museum pour aller en Australie sous un climat plus sec; il poursuivit alors ses études acarologiques à l'Université d'Adélaïde; en avril 1930, profitant d'une amélioration dans son état de santé, il voulut revenir en Angleterre, mais il mourut en mer le 4 mai, avant d'arriver à Colombo. [From Bonnet, 1945: 66].

Arthur Stanley Hirst (1883-1930) [rather than Stanley Arthur] read Zoology at University College London and joined the Museum in 1905, becoming Assistant Keeper in 1921 and resigning, also due to ill health, in 1927. He was in charge of Arachnida and Myriopoda, and was an authority on Acari. [Polly Tucker in litt.].

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	Hirst, A.S. (1911a) Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905 under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. No. xviii. The Araneae, Opiliones and Pseudoscorpiones. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, (series 2) 14, 379–395. [Issued Sept 1911].
	Hirst, A.S. (1911b) On some new Opiliones from Japan and the Loo-Choo Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London, (series 8) 8(47), 625–636. [Issued Nov 1911].
	Hirst, A.S. (1912) Descriptions of new harvest-men of the family Phalangodidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, London, (series 8) 10(55), 63–84, plate I. [Issued July 1912].
	Hirst, A.S. (1913) The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905 under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. No. II.- Second report on the Arachnida - The scorpions, pedipalpi, and supplementary notes on the opiliones and pseudoscorpions. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, (series 2) 16, 31–37.
	Hirst, A.S. (1925) On some new genera and species of Arachnida. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 95(4), 1271–1280. [Issued Dec 1925]

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