Reginald Innes Pocock

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Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (March 4, 1863 - August 9, 1947) was a British zoologist.

Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol and studied at University College, Bristol under Conwy Lloyd Morgan and William Johnson Sollas. In 1885 he became an assistant at the Natural History Museum and was put in charge of the collections of Arachnida and Myriapoda. In 1904 he left to become Superintendent of London Zoo, remaining so until his retirement in 1923. He then worked, as a voluntary researcher, in the British Museum, in the mammals department.

Partial bibliography

Reginald I. Pocock (1902) Arachnida. Scorpiones, Pedipalpi, and Solifugae
Reginald Innes Pocock (1902) Biologia Centrali-Americana. Arachnida.
Reginald Innes Pocock (1900) The Fauna of British India (including Ceylon and Burma).

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