Eugene W. Oates Explained

Eugene William Oates
Birth Date:	31 December 1845
Birth Place:	Sicily, Italy
Death Place:	Edgbaston, England
Education:	Sydney College, Bath
Occupation:	Ornithologist

Eugene William Oates (31 December 184516 November 1911) was an English naturalist and a civil engineer who worked on road projects in Burma.

Oates was born in Sicily and educated in Bath, England. For a time he attended Sydney College, Bath and later under private tutors.^[1] He was a civil servant in the Public Works Department in India and Burma from 1867 to 1899. He retired to England, where he compiled a catalogue of the birds' eggs in the Natural History Museum, and served as secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1898 to 1901.^{[2] [3]}

He died in Edgbaston.^[4]

A species of Indian snake, Typhlops oatesii,^[5] a Burmese frog, Humerana oatesii, and seven species of birds are named in his honor.^[6]

Publications

• Oates, E.W. (1883). A handbook to the birds of British Burmah including those found in the adjoining state of Karennee. Vol II. London: R.H. Porter.
• Oates, E.W. (1888). "On the Indian and Burmese Scorpions of the Genus Isometrus, with Description of Three new Species". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 3: 244–250.
• Oates, E.W. (1889-1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds.—Vol. I & II. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers).
• Oates, E.W. (1899). A manual of the Game Birds of India. Vol. II, p. 139-146. Bombay: Cambridge.

Notes and References

1. Ibis. Obituary: Eugene William Oates. 1912. Anonymous. 54. 2. 342. 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1912.tb05299.x.
2. Ibis . 9th series . Mr. E. W. Oates . 1908 . Anonymous . 2 . Jubilee Supplement . 221–222 .
3. Notes on Oates's birds of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 5. 1890. 167–305. Sharpe, R. Bowdler. Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
4. Book: Lockyer, Sir Norman. Norman Lockyer. Nature. 1912. Macmillan Journals Limited. 118.
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Oates, E.W.", p. 193).
6. Book: Beolens . Bo . Watkins . Michael . Grayson . Michael . amp . The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians . 2013 . Pelagic Publishing . 978-1-907807-42-8 . 157.