Charles Hose

Summary

Charles Hose FRGS. FLS (12 October 1863 – 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.[1]

A portrait sketch of Charles Hose.
Dayak man in gala costume. Photographed by Charles Hose.

Life and career edit

He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted[2] in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree.[3] He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884. His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905.[4]

Animal species named after Hose edit

Several species named to commemorate his work[5] as zoologist:

Amphibians

Birds

Fish

Mammals

Insects

  • The stick insect: Hermagoras hosei Kirby, 1896 - endemic to Borneo.
  • The cockroach: Dorylaea hosei (Shelford, 1909).

Places named after Hose edit

Place

Bibliography edit

Books authored by Charles Hose include:

  • A descriptive account of the mammals of Borneo (1893)
  • The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (a Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations) (with William McDougall) (1912)
  • Natural Man: A Record from Borneo (1926)
  • Fifty Years of Romance and Research - Or a Jungle-Wallah at Large (1927)
  • The Field Book of a Jungle-Wallah: Being a Description of Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawak (1929)

See also edit

  • Category:Taxa named by Charles Hose

References edit

  1. ^ Haddon, A. C. (20 November 1929). "Obituary: Dr. Charles Hose". Nature. 124 (3135): 845. doi:10.1038/124845a0.
  2. ^ "Hose, Charles". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 877–878.
  3. ^ "Hose, Charles (HS882C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ British Museum Collection
  5. ^ http://zoohistory.co.uk/html/modules/Downloads/files/whowaswho.pdf[permanent dead link] A Zoological 'Who was Who' by Mike Grayson
  6. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families LEPTOBARBIDAE, XENOCYPRIDIDAE and TINCIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  • Biography

External links edit

  •   Media related to Charles Hose at Wikimedia Commons
  • Works by Charles Hose at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Charles Hose at Internet Archive
  • Weaving shuttle collected by Charles Hose, BBC History of the World in 100 Objects website