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Last Name Cott
Given Name Hugh B.
alt. Names H. B. G. ; Hugh Bamford Cott ;
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Year born 1900 in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire
Year died 1987
Place of death Stoke Abbot, Dorset
Father's occupation
Relatives
Education Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 1919; Selwyn College, Cambridge University 1922-25,Ph.D. University of Glasgow 1938 .
Country of Activity England, UK
Worked for British Army as camouflage expert 1919–1922 and 1939-1945 ; Cott: Adaptive Coloration in Animals (Zoological photography 1956) ;
Patronage founding member of Society of Wildlife Artists ; fellow of Royal Photographic Society, London; Glasgow Univ.(lecturer 1932-38) ;Cambridge Univ.1938-67
Collaborators
Techniques animal and zoological pen-and-ink, woodcut, engraving, and photography ;
Sample(s) http://camoupedia.blogspot.de/2011/12/hugh-b-cott-zoologist-and-camoufleur.html ;
Archival sources janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0276%2FSEPP%2FCOT ; archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb433cott ;
Published sources H. B. C. : Looking at Animals. A Zoologist in Africa (1975) ;
other Further Places of Activity: Africa, Uganda, Nile region, Brazil Africa, South America and the Canary Islands. Authority on natural and military camouflage.
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