Herbert F. Standing

Herbert Fox Standing (5 July 1857 – 24 December 1943) was an English paleontologist and Quaker medical missionary in Madagascar. He was the author of the book The Children of Madagascar (1887) and the Headmaster of the Boys' High School of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association in Antananarivo.^[1]

Herbert F. Standing
Born	Herbert Fox Standing 5 July 1857 Crawley, Sussex
Died	24 December 1943 Durban, South Africa
Monuments	Phelsuma standingi
Occupation(s)	Medical missionary Paleontologist Author
Years active	unknown
Notable work	The Children of Madagascar (1887)

Standing is responsible for describing four species of subfossil lemur, including Archaeoindris fontoynontii (1909), Mesopropithecus pithecoides (1905), Palaeopropithecus maximus (1903), Megaladapis grandidieri (1903), and other subfossil taxa that have since become taxonomic synonyms.^[2] Standing's day gecko (Phelsuma standingi) is named after him.^[1]

Standing married Lucy Glynn in 1881.^[3] They had seven children.^[4]

References

1. Beolens, Watkins & Grayson 2011, p. 251.
2. Godfrey, Jungers & Burney 2010, pp. 355–362.
3. Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898
4. "Our Missionaries from Ireland – Working in Three Fields". Our Missions: Friends' Missionary Magazine: 39. 1908. Retrieved 13 July 2018.

Literature cited

• Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
• Godfrey, L. R.; Jungers, W. L.; Burney, D. A. (2010). "Chapter 21: Subfossil Lemurs of Madagascar". In Werdelin, L.; Sanders, W. J (eds.). Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press. pp. 351–367. ISBN 978-0-520-25721-4.