Hampton Wildman Parker

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Hampton Wildman Parker (1897–1968) was an English zoologist.

Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He is the author of a works on snakes and frogs:[1] Parker discovered the Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink on the Seychelles which he named after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.

Books
Snakes London : Hale, 1963
Natural history of snakes London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 1965
A monograph of the frogs of the family Microhylidae London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1934
Snakes, a natural history University of Queensland Press, 1977

[edit] References

  1. ^ "author:"Parker, H. W. (Hampton Wildman), 1897-1968"". Catalogue. National Library of Australia. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Parker,%20H.%20W.%20(Hampton%20Wildman),%201897-1968%22&iknowwhatimean=1. Retrieved 2008-10-23. 


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