Moreau, Reginald Ernest (1897-1970)
ornithologist

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   born in Kingston-on-Thames, England, on 29 May 1897.
--1914: graduates from Kingston Grammar School; joins the Army Audit Office
–1920-1927: stationed in Egypt
--1928-1946: librarian at the Agricultural and Forestry Research Station, Amani, Tanzania
    (near the East Usambara Mountains)
--1937-1944: compiles extensive observations and records on individual birds and their nests
--1941-1960: corresponds extensively with J. P. Chapin of the American Museum of Natural
    History
--1946: retires from the civil service; returns to England
--1946-1960: editor of The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union
--1947-1966: works at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
--1949: made an honorary fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union
–1960-1965: president of the British Ornithologists' Union
--1962: publishes "A Study of the Rare Birds of Africa" in the Bulletin of the British Museum
   (Natural History): Zoology, with B. P. Hall
--1966: awarded the British Ornithologists' Union's Godman-Salvin medal
--1966: publishes his The Bird Faunas of Africa and Its Islands
--1968: publishes his The Departed Village: Berrick Salome at the Turn of the Century
--1970: publishes his An Atlas of Speciation in African Passerine Birds, with B. P. Hall
--dies at Hereford, England, on 30 May 1970.
--1972: his book "The Palaearctic-African Bird Migration Systems" is posthumously completed
    and published by James Monk

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Ricklefs, R. E. (2000) Lack, Skutch, and Moreau:
The Early Development of Life-History Thinking. The Condor 102(1):3-8  - PDF

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