Cameron, Malcolm

Malcolm Cameron was born in London in 1873, and died there on October 24, 1954. He obtained an M.D. degree at The London Hospital and entered the British navy as naval surgeon. He served in the British navy during the Boer War and in the first World War (campaigns in the Falklands and East Africa). He retired in 1920 and devoted the rest of his life to entomology, although he had about 40 publications before retirement. He went to India, where he collected Staphylinidae extensively, but returned in 1925 to London due to a lung illness. His five-volume contribution on Staphylinidae of British India was his major work, but 206 other papers on Staphylinidae worldwide together enabled him to describe 4,136 species and 195 genera in Staphylinidae, making him the most profuse describer of species of this family after Max Bernhauer. Like Bernhauer, he did not provide illustrations or keys for most of his works (the Fauna of British India was an exception), so identification of specimens of...