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Charles Frost (naturalist)

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32: 59:. He had no formal education in the natural sciences, however, Frost was a member of the Linnean Society and used the post-nominal F.L.S. in his published works. As co-author he assisted in compiling catalogues and descriptions of reptiles that became standard sources for the contemporary research of herpetology. He was the sole author of several short works, including two papers in 1888 and 1890 on the results of his experiments on the toxicity of 74:
The author maintained collections of specimens until his death, when they were donated to a museum; the specimens were not labelled with the important information concerning the locality in which they were collected. His name is commemorated in the scientific names of the lizard
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and undertook collecting expeditions to obtain specimens of reptiles, birds and spiders. Most of the publications and work Frost undertook was through societies in Victoria, although he is absent from membership of the
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species in Victoria, known as the red-back spider, prompted by claims of T. S. Ralph in his presentation on the New Zealand
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An account of the biographical details of Frost's life were published as an anonymous obituary.
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Frost published descriptions of new taxa with the more well known author
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at an earlier meeting of the Victorian Naturalist Society.
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013).
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Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas

Boroondara General Cemetery
Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas
Royal Society of Victoria
Latrodectus
Latrodectus katipo
Lerista frosti
Philoria frosti




Shea, G.M.
"The Horn expedition (1894) to Central Australia: New directions in Australian herpetology"
"Experiments on the Victorian 'Katipo'"
Beolens, Bo
Watkins, Michael
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
ISBN
978-1-4214-0135-5
The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians
ISBN
978-1-907807-42-8
Categories
1915 deaths
Zoological collectors
Australian herpetologists
Burials at Boroondara General Cemetery

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