Acknowledgments 



The following persons are gratefully 

 acknowledged: At the British Museum 

 (Natural History), J. Gordon Sheals, 

 Keeper of Zoology, kindly invited me to 

 conduct this research on Professor 

 Nuttall's tick collection; Keith H. 

 Hyatt, Arachnida and Myriapoda Section, 

 freely provided access to the Nuttall 

 collection plus space, tools, and time 

 to study this material; Anne S. Baker, 

 Arachnida and Myriapoda Section, pro- 

 vided rare and obscure references 

 relating to Professor Nuttall that are 

 available only in the library of the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.). A special 

 thanks, also, to Bernice E. Brewster, 

 formerly of the Arachnida and Myriapoda 

 Section, who provided host and locality 

 information for which I am most grateful. 



Donald Macfarlane, Commonwealth Institute 

 of Entomology, through his knowledge of 

 the British records office, was instru- 

 mental in enabling me to trace the 

 daughter and son of Professor Nuttall. 

 Macfarlane also provided invaluable 

 assistance in solving certain British 

 conventions in housing, schooling, 

 banking, and so forth, for which my 



family and I are most grateful. Dennis 

 W. Babbage, emeritus fellow and former 

 president, and Ralph E. Bennett, presi- 

 dent, Magdalene College, Cambridge 

 University, were gracious in assisting 

 me in gathering background material on 

 Professor Nuttall's later days at Cam- 

 bridge. 



To the following authorities on the 

 Ixodoidea my thanks for their taxonomic 

 assistance: Carleton M. Clifford, Rocky 

 Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Mont.; 

 Harry Hoogstraal and Hilda Wassef, 

 NAMRU-3, Cairo, Egypt, and Jane B. 

 Walker, Veterinary Research Institute, 

 Onderstepoort, Republic of South Africa. 

 Professor Nuttall's son, George R. F. 

 Nuttall, was very helpful in filling in 

 details on his father's life. I am 

 grateful to F. G. A. M. Smit, British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.), R. W. Wenzel , Field 

 Museum of Natural History, and K. C. Kim, 

 Pennsylvania State University, for 

 determinations of Siphonaptera, Hippo- 

 boscidae, and Anoplura, respectively. 

 Parts of this research were aided by a 

 Wellcome Research Travel Grant from the 

 Burroughs Wellcome Fund. 



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