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CAPT. GUY C. SHORTRIDGE, director of the Kaff-rarian Museum, King William's Town, South Africa, died suddenly while working alone in the Museum on January12. He was born on June 21, 1880, at Honiton Devon, where his father was in medical practice. From his earliest youth, Shortridge was interested in natural history, and after serving in the South African Constabulary during the Boer War, he was engaged by the late Mr. W. L. Sclater, then director of the South African Museum, to collect mammals and birds in Pondoland and the Colesberg district. After he had returned to England, he made the acquaintance of Oldfield Thomas, who arranged for him to collect mammals and birds in south-west Australia. Then he went to west Java and brought back a great collection of 1,500 mammals. In 1908 he went to Guatemala to obtain live animals for the Zoological Society, and on his return joined the British Ornithologists' Union jubilee expedition to New Guinea. In 1911 the Bombay Natural History Society inaugurated a mammal survey, and Shortridge was engaged to collect for the Society. He did good work in southern India and then was sent to Burma. Previously little systematic collecting had been done there, and our present knowledge of the mammals of that country is due to his excellent work.
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Capt. G. C. Shortridge. Nature 163, 556–557 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163556b0
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