- R E Cheesman
Major Robert Ernest Cheesman CBE (1878 - February 13, 1962) was a military officer,
explorer andornithologist .Cheesman was Private Secretary to Sir Percy Sykes during his tenure as
High Commissioner inIraq .In 1923, during a journey into the
Arabian Peninsula , Cheesman collected over 300 specimens from theHasa oasis, several of them previously unknown to science. These specimens are currently in theBritish Museum .He is credited with discovering
Cheesman's Gerbil ("Gerbillus cheesmani").Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of
Salwa toUqair . In 1924 he fixed the position ofHofuf and identified the site of ancientGerrha . He presented his findings toIbn Sa'ud at his court in Hofuf. He was later given the Gill Memorial Award for this work by the TheRoyal Geographical Society .Publications
'Report on a collection of mammals made by Col. J.E.B. Hotson in Shiraz, Persia', "Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society", vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 573-581.
References
* "Travellers in Arabia", Eid Al Yahya, Stacey International (2006). ISBN 0 9552 1931 0 (9780955219313)
* "In Unknown Arabia", R. E. Cheesman Macmillan & Co. (1926)External links
* [http://www.qatarvisitor.com/index.php?cID=439&pID=1390 Robert Cheeseman: An Arabian Explorer]
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