author
C. Boden (Cecil Boden) Kloss
b. 1877
A field zoologist with a gift for exploration, he became one of the best-known specialists on the birds and mammals of Southeast Asia. His work took him from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to New Guinea, and his name still turns up in the history of natural science.
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In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin"
by C. Boden (Cecil Boden) Kloss
About the author
Born on 28 March 1877, Cecil Boden Kloss was an English zoologist from a family of Dutch descent in Worcestershire. He became known for his expertise in the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia, building a career around collecting, studying, and describing wildlife from regions that were still little known to European science.
In the early 1900s, he joined the American naturalist William Louis Abbott on expeditions to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He also took part in the 1912–1913 Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, work that helped establish his reputation as a careful and experienced field naturalist.
Kloss later held important museum posts in the region, including service connected with the museums in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and he eventually became Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore. He died on 19 August 1949. Today he is remembered as a major contributor to zoology in Southeast Asia, especially for the depth of his work on the region’s birds and mammals.