Charles Hose
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Charles Hose (12 October 1863 - 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.
He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted School in Essex and at the University of Cambridge. He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884.
He is commemorated in the names of the Hose's Palm Civet, Hose's Pygmy Flying Squirrel, Hose's Shrew, Hose's Frog and Hose's Broadbill, as well in the Hose Mountains.
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Books authored by Charles Hose include:
- A descriptive account of the mammals of Borneo (1893)
- The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (a Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations) (with William McDougall) (1912)
- Natural Man: A Record from Borneo (1926)
- Fifty Years of Romance and Research - Or a Jungle-Wallah at Large (1927)
- The Field Book of a Jungle-Wallah: Being a Description of Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawak (1929)
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