BIOGRAFÍAS
     
       Reginald Innes POCOCK  
     
 

     Nació el 4 de marzo 1863 en Clifton, Bristol Inglaterra. Estudió en la Escuela Frank Townsend en Clifton, a continuación, en St. Edward's School de Oxford, donde fue alumno del profesor POULTON del que aprendió los fundamentos de la Zoología; era entonces un estudiante de la University College en Bristol. De 1885 a 1903 fue asistente en el Museo Británico, a cargo de las colecciones de Arácnidos y Miriápodos. En 1904 se convirtió en director del zoológico Regents Park en Londres, cargo que ocupó hasta su jubilación en 1923. Luego regresó  al Museo Británico, donde, como investigador voluntario sigue trabajando (1939), pero al servicio de la Mammalogía.

     Zoólogo de gran valía, Pocock ha publicó numerosas obras sobre la anatomía, la paleontología y la sistemática de Artrópodos y Mamíferos.

 
     
 

     Con respecto a las arañas, grupo que estudió especialmente de 1885 a 1903, durante su visita al laboratorio de Arachnida del Museo Británico, catalogó numerosas colecciones y describió muchas nuevas especies de los países más diversos, la mayoría de ellos colonias inglesas africanas, Etiopía, India, Ceilán, Islas Laccadives, Socotra, Borneo, Las Molucas, Islas Salomón, la Isla de Navidad, etc.

 
     
   

Su obra:

 
     
 

Pocock (R.I.) (Reginald Innes), 1887. Arachnida (1886). Zool. Rec., 23, pp.1-18.

Pocock (R.I.), 1888a. - Arachnida (1887). Zool. Rec., 24, pp.1-32.

Pocock (R.I.), 1888b. - On the Myriapoda, Arachnida and Land Crustacea of Christmas Island. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, pp.556-564, 2 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1889a. - Arachnida (1888). Zool. Rec., 25, pp.1-28.

Pocock (R.I.), 1889b. - Arachnida, Chilopoda and Crustacea. in AITCHISON (J.E.T.), The Zoology of the Afghan Delimitation Commission. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., (2) 5, pp.110-121, pl.XIII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1890a. - Arachnida (1889). Zool. Rec., 26, pp.1-27.

Pocock (R.I.), 1890b. - Sexual Selection in Spiders. Nature, Lond., 42, pp.405-406.

Pocock (R.I.), 1891a. - Arachnida (1890). Zool. Rec., 27, pp.1-20.

Pocock (R.I.) (R.I.P.), 1891b. - American Spiders and their Spinning Work. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 8, pp.100-106. (Analyse).

Pocock (R.I.), 1892a. - Arachnida and Myriapoda. in DISTANT (W.L.), Naturalist in the Transvaal. London, 1892, pp.179-184.

Pocock (R.I.), 1892b. - Supplementary Notes on the Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Mergui Archipielago: with Descriptions of some New Species from Siam and Malaysia. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 24, pp.316-326, pl.XXII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1892c. - Description of a New Trap-door Spider from Ceylon. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 9, pp.49-51, pl.III A.

Pocock (R.I.), 1892d. - Liphistius and its bearing upon the Clasification of Spiders. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 10, pp.306-314.

Pocock (R.I.), 1892e. - Arachnida (1891). Zool. Rec., 28, pp.1-26.

Pocock (R.I.), 1893a. - On some Points in the Morphology of the Arachnida (s.s.) with Notes on the Classification of the Group. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 11, pp.1-19.

Pocock (R.I.), 1893b. - Description of a New Species of Tree-trap-door Spider from Trinidad. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 11, pp.407-409.

Pocock (R.I.), 1893c. - Arachnida (1892). Zool. Rec., 29, pp.1-39.

Pocock (R.I.), 1894a. - Further Notes and Observations upon the Instincts of some Common English Spiders. Nature, Lond., 49, pp.60-63.

Pocock (R.I.), 1894b. - Arachnida. in WALCKER (J.), A Visit to Damma Island, East Indian Archipielago. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 14, pp.63-64.

Pocock (R.I.), 1894c. - Arachnida (1893). Zool. Rec., 30, pp.1-33.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895a. - Musical Boxes in Spiders. Nat. Sci., 6, pp.44-50, 9 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895b. - Some Suggestions on the Origin and Evolution of Web spinning in Spiders. Nature, Lond., 51, pp.417-420.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895c. - On the Arachnida and Myriopoda obtained by Dr Anderson's collector during Mr T.Bent's Expedition to the Hadramaut, South Arabia. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 25, pp.292-316, pl.IX.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895d. - On a New and Natural Grouping of some of the Oriental Genera of Mygalomorphae, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 15, pp.165-184.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895e. - Description of two New Spiders obtained by Messrs J.J.Quelch and F.Mac Connel on the summit of Mount Roraima, in Demerara; with a Note upon the Systematic Position of the Genus Desis. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 16, pp.139-143.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895f. - Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Trap-door Spiders belonging to the Group Trionychi. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 16, pp.187-197, pl.V.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895g. - Notes on the Identity of some of the Types of Mygalomorphae in the Colection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 16, pp.223-230.

Pocock (R.I.), 1895h. - On a New Sound-producing Organ in a Spider. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 16, pp.230-233.

Pocock (R.I.), 1896a. - Descriptions of some New South African Spiders of the Family Heropodidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 17, pp.55-64.

Pocock (R.I.), 1896b. - On the Presence of Wood Mason's Stridulating Organ in Trechona zebrata. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 17, pp.177-179.

Pocock (R.I.), 1896c. - Report upon the Scorpions, Spiders, Centipedes and Millipedes obtained by Mr and Mrs E. Lort. Phillips in the Goolis Mountains inland of Berbera, N.Somaliland. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 18, pp.178-189.

Pocock (R.I.), 1896d. - Arachnida (1894-1895). Zool. Rec., 32, pp.1-56.

Pocock (R.I.), 1897a. - On some Trap-door Spiders of the Family Ctenizidae from South and West Australia, contained in the Collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) 19, pp. 109-116.

Pocock (R.I.), 1897b. - On the Spiders of the Suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the Collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, pp.724, pl.XLI-XLIII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1897c. - Ar the Arthropoda a Natural Group? Nat. Sci., 10, pp.113-114.

Pocock (R.I.), 1897d. - Spinnen (Araneae). in Kükenthal, Ergebnisse einer zoologische Forschungsreise in dem Molukken und Borneo. Abh. senck. naturf. Ges., 23, pp.591-629, pl.XXV-XXVI.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898a. - On the Arachnida taken in the Transvaal and in Nyasaland by Mr.  W.L.Distant and Dr Percy Rendall. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 1, pp.308-321, 5 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898b. - List of the Arachnida and << Myriopoda >> obtained in Funafuti by Prof. W.J.Sollas and Mr Stanley Gardiner, and in Rotuma by Mr Stanley Garnier. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 1, pp.321-329.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898c. - Scorpions, Pedipalpi and Spiders from the Solomon Islands. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 1, pp.457-475, pl.XIX.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898d. - The Arachnida from the Province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the Collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 2, pp.197-226, pl.VIII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898e. - Descriptions of three New Species of Spiders of the Genus Selenops Latr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 2, pp.348-351, 3 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898f. - The Arachnida from the regions of Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika contained in the Collections of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 2, pp.429-448.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898g. - On the Scorpions, Spiders and Solpugas, collected by Mr C.Steuart Betton in British East Africa. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1898, pp.497-524, pl.XLI-XLII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898h. - Stridulation in some African Spiders. Zoologist, (4) 2, pp.14-21, 2 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898i. Spider and Pitcher-plant. Nature, Lond., 58, pp.274-275.

Pocock (R.I.), 1898j. - Description of a New Marine Spider from South Africa collected by the Rev. N.Abraham, and presented to the Derby Museum. Bull. Liverp. Mus., 1, pp.75-78.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899a. - Descriptions of one New Genus and four New Species of Spiders, colected in the Islands of Abd-el-Kuri and Sokotra. Bull. Liverp. Mus., 2 (2), pp.40-42.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899b. - On the Scorpions, Pedipalpi and Spiders from Tropical West Africa, represented in the Collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1899, pp.833-885, pl.LV-LVIII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899c. - Diagnoses of some New Indian Arachnida. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 12, pp.744-753.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899d. - Chilopoda and Arachnida. in GÜNTHER (R.T.), Contributions of the Natural History of Lake Urmi, N.W.Persia, and its Neighbourod. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 27, pp.399-406, pl.XXVI.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899e. - The Genus Poecilotheria: its Habits, History and Species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 3, pp.82-96, pl.VII.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899f. - A New Stridulating Theraphosid Spider from South America. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 3, pp.347-349.

Pocock (R.I.), 1899g. - Scorpions, Pedipalpi and Spiders colected by Dr Willay in New Britain, the Solomon Islands, Loyalty Islands, etc... in WILLEY, Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere. London, Part I., pp.95-120, pl.-X-XI.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900a. - The Great Indian Spiders. The Genus Poecilotheria: its Habits, History and Species. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 13, pp.121-133, 1 pl.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900b. - 9. Chilopoda and Arachnida. in On a Collection of Insects and Arachnids made in 1895 and 1897 by Mr C.V.A.Peel, F.Z.S., in Somaliland, with Descriptions of New Species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1900, pp.48-55.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900c. - Some New Arachnida from Cape Colony. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 6, pp.316-333.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900d. - Some New Theraphosid Spiders in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 6, pp.489-494.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900e. - Myriopoda and Arachnida. in Report on a Collection made by MM. F.V. McConnell and J.J.Quelch at Mount Roraima in British Guiana. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., (2) 8, pp.64-71, 2 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900f. - The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. London, 1900, pp.I-XII, 1-279.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900g. - Scorpions and Spiders. in GOSSÉ, Appendix C: Notes on the Natural History of the Aconcagua Valley; in FITZGERALD (A.E.), The Highest Andes. London, 1900, pp.356-360, 1 pl.

Pocock (R.I.), 1900h. - Chilopoda, Diplopoda and Arachnida. in ANDREWS (C.W.), A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), London, 1900, pp.153-162.

Pocock (R.I.), 1901a. - Adaptation of Instinct in a Trap-door Spider. Nature, Lond., 63, p.466.

Pocock (R.I.), 1901b. - Descriptions of some New Species of Spiders from British India. Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 13, pp.478-498.

Pocock (R.I.), 1901c. - On some New Trap-door Spiders from China. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1901 (1), pp.207-215, pl.XXI.

Pocock (R.I.), 1901d. - Descriptions of some New African Arachnida. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 7, pp.284-288.

Pocock (R.I.), 1901e. - Diagnoses of some New Species of Spiders from Mashonaland. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 7, pp.337-340.

Pocock (R.I.), 1901f. - Some New and Old Genera of S.American Aviculariidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 8, pp.540-555.

Pocock (R.I.), 1902a. - Studies on the Arachnid Entosternite. Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., 46, pp.225-262, pl.XIII-XIV. + Résumés in Journ. Roy. Micr. Soc., 1902, p.645, + Zool. Jahresber., 1902, Arthrop., p.37.

Pocock (R.I.), 1902b. - On the Marine Spiders of the Genus Desis, with Description of a New Species. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902 (2), pp.98-106, 1 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1902c. - Descriptions of some New Species of African Solifugae and Araneae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 10, pp.6-27, pl.II-III.

Pocock (R.I.), 1902d. - Some New African Spiders. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 10, pp.315-330.

Pocock (R.I.), 1902e. - Eophrynus and allied Carboniferous Arachnida. Geol. Mag., (4) 9, pp.439-448, 487-493, 2 fig.

Pocock (R.I.) & N.C.Rothschild, 1903. - On a New << Bird's-dung >> Spider from Ceylon. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903 (1), pp.48-51, pl.X.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903a. - On some Genera and Species of South American Aviculariidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 11, pp.81-115.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903b. - Some Arachnida collected by Mr G.W. Bury in Yemen. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 11, pp.214-220, 2 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903c. - Descriptions of four New Arachnida of the Orders Pedipalpi, Solifugae and Araneae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 11, pp.220-226, 1 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903d. - Some New Spiders from the Camaroons collected by Mr G.L.Bates. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 11, pp.258-264.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903e. - The Systematic Position of the Genus Hadrotarsus, Thorell. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (7) 11, pp.619-621, 4 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903f. - On a New Species of Marine Spider of the Genus Desis from Zamzibar. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1902 (2), pp.389-392, 1 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903g. - On the Geographical Distribution of Spiders of the Order Mygalomorphae. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1903 (1), pp.340-368, 4 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903h. - Notes on the Commensalism subsisting between a Gregarious Spider Stegodyphus sp., and the Moth Batrachedra stegodyphobius Wlsm. Ent. Month. Mag., 39, pp.167-170.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903i. - Arachnida. in FORBES (H.O.), The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri. Bull. Liverp. Mus., Special, 1903, pp.175-208, pl.XIV, XXVI. (Avec des notes par H.O.FORBES et W.R.OGILVIE GRANT).

Pocock (R.I.), 1903j. - A New Carboniferous Arachnid. Geol. Mag., (4) 10, pp.247-251, 2 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1903k. - Further Remarks upon the Carboniferous Arachnid Anthracosiro, with the Description of a Second Species of the Genus. Geol. Mag., (4) 10, pp.405-408, 1 fig.

Pocock (R.I.), 1904. Arachnida. in Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, 2 (3). London, 1904, pp.797-805, pl.LXVI.

Pocock (R.I.), 1909. Mimicry in Spiders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 30, pp.256-270, 1 pl.

Pocock (R.I.), 1910. Notes on the Morphology and Generic Nomenclature of some Carboniferous Arachnida. Geol. Mag., (5) 7, pp.505-512.

Pocock (R.I.), 1911a. - A Monograph of the Terrestial Carboniferous Arachnida of Great Britain. Palaeont. Soc., 64, pp.1-84, 3 pl.

Pocock (R.I.) (R.I.P.), 1911b. - Tarantula. Encycl. Brit., 11 th Edit., 26, p.416.

Pocock (R.I.), 1928. - Guide to the Arachnida, Millipedes and Centipedes exhibited in the Department of Zoology British Museum (Natural History). London, 1928, pp.1-56, 34 fig., 3 pl. (Araneae, pp.22-28).