Biography
Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford
Publication activity
New taxa described
Described Taxa Distribution
95 type localities across 48 genera
Papers (21)
On some genera and species of South American Aviculariidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11: 81-115.
Some Arachnida collected by Mr G. W. Bury in Yemen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11: 214-220.
Some new spiders from the camaroons collected by Mr G. L. Bates. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7)11: 258-264.
Some new African spiders. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 10: 315-330.
Descriptions of some new African Arachnida. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 7.
Some new and old genera of South American Avicularidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 8: 540-555.
The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Arachnida. London, pp. 1-279 [p. 190].
Some new African theraphosoid spiders in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 6: 489-494.
Some new Arachnida from Cape Colony. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 6.
Diagnoses of some new Indian Arachnida. Jour. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 12.
Scorpions and spiders. In Fitzgerald, A.E. (ed.). The highest Andes. London, pp. 356-360.
On the scorpions, pedipalps and spiders from tropical West-Africa, represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1899: 833-885.
The genus Poecilotheria: its habits, history and species. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 3: 82-96 [p. 93, pl. 7, f. 3].
On the Arachnida taken in the Transvaal and in Nyasaland by Mr W.L. Distant and Dr Percy Rendall. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1: 308-321.
On the scorpions, spiders and solpugas collected by Mr C. Stuart Betton in British East- Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 497-524.
The Arachnida from the province of Natal, South Africa, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 2.
Spinnen (Araneae). In: Kükenthal, W. (ed.) Ergebnisse einer zoologische Forschungsreise in dem Molukken und Borneo. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 23, 591-629.
On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897.
On a new and natural grouping of some of the Oriental genera of Mygalomorphae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 15: 165-184.
Description of two new spiders obtained by Messrs. J. J. Quelch and F. McConnell on the summit of Mount Roraima, in Demerara; with a note upon the systematic position of the genus Desis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 16(92): 139-143.
Supplementary notes on the Arachnida and Myriopoda of the Mergui Archipelago: with descriptions of some new species from Siam and Malaysia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 24: 316-326.