Biography

Charles Bernard Lewis, US-born Jamaican zoologist (Worcester, Massachusetts 09 April 1913 – Tampa, Florida 24 September 1992)

Interested in history, geology, archeology and art

Collected new taxa of insects, mollusks and plants from Jamaica, Cayman Islands and southern Cuba

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With C. Grant. Herpetology of the Cayman Islands (1940)

With C. Grant & W.G. Lynn. The Herpetology of Jamaica (1940)

The Cayman Islands and marine turtle. Bull. Inst. Jam. Sci. Ser. 2:56-65, 1940

The frogs of the Clydesdale region. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 1:10-2, 1941

Frog eggs. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 2:35, 1943

With G.D.H. Carpenter. A collection of Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera) from the Cayman Islands. Ann. Carnegie Museum 29:371-96, 1943

Notes on trees of Portland Ridge. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 2:14-7, 1943

Notes on Cyclura. Herpetologica 2:93-8, 1944

Some discoveries in Jamaica (1944)

With C. Swabey. Forestry in Cayman Island (1946)

The West Indian seal. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 43:169-72, 1948

Whales in Jamaican waters. Notes Nat. Hist. Soc. Jamaica 65:75, 1954

Caspian Terns in Jamaica. Auk 78:264-5, 1961

HONORS

Lewisepeira Levi 1993 (Arachnida)