Subfonds PER - R C L Perkins papers

Robert Cyril Layton was educated at Merchant Taylors' School (1877-1885) and Jesus College, Oxford (1885-1889). He briefly worked as a private tutor at Dartmouth. He was selected by the Sandwich Islands Committee (set up by the British Association and the Royal Society) to go as collector to the Hawaiian Islands in 1891. He spent the greater part of the next ten years in the Hawaiian Island collection all groups of terrestrial animals. He was on the Board of Agriculture of the Territory of Hawaii, 1902-1904, and director of the new division of entomology at the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association's experimental station in 1904. He retired to England in 1912. He was awarded an Oxford DSc in 1906 and gold medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1912. He was elected FRS in 1920