Nationality UK Fields Botany, Entomology Died 1953 | Name Cecil Brooks Institutions BMNH | |
Institution Natural History Museum, London | ||
Cecil Joslin Brooks (1875–1953) was a British metallurgical chemist, but also collected plants (especially ferns), animals, and butterflies.
From 1900 to 1910 he worked for the Borneo Company at Bidi, near Bau, in Sarawak, where they mined gold.
From 1912 to 1923 he worked at the Simau goldmine near Bencoolen in Sumatra.
He returned, with his Dutch wife, Alida De Jongh, to England in 1924. He then studied his collections, together with the butterflies in the British Museum of Natural History, where he was made an associate. A collection of East Anglian moths is in the Norwich Castle Museum.
Many species of fern are named for him (mainly by Edwin Copeland), and also: Brooks' dayak fruit bat, Dyakopteris brooksi, Brooks' wolf gecko, Luperosaurus brooksii, and Brooks' nose-horned lizard, Thaumatorhynchus brooksi. A species of Sumatran snake, Calamaria alidae, is named in honor of Alida Brooks.