Frank Archibald Sinclair Turk (15 January 1911 – 14 February 1996) was a noted

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and adult educationalist. In addition to his published work on insects, Frank worked as an adult educationalist and ran a programme through the University of Exeter's Department of Extra-Mural Studies. He had a close relationship with several artists including, the artist Peter Lanyon's son Andrew Lanyon,

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and

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. Frank's wife

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, MBE, was also a published zoologist and worked with Frank in the field of adult education. Together they were instrumental in founding the Cornish Biological Record Unit at the

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's,

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which was later incorporated into the

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. Frank was elected to be the Trust's first president in 1962.

Publications

Turk's publications include: * Turk, F.A. (1945a) New opilionids (Laniatores) from Indian Caves. ''

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'', (series 11) 12 (87), 202–207, 10 figs. * Turk, F.A. (1945b) A correction and additional data to two former papers on opilionids and Diplopods from Indian Caves. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', (series 11) 12 (39), 420. * Turk, F.A. (1948) Records and descriptions of new and little-known opiliones, mostly cavernicolous. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', (series 12) 1 (4), 254–262. ssued Oct 1948 * Turk, F.A. (1964) Obituary Notice. Prof. Dr. C. F. Roewer. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', (series 13) 6 ��1963” 315–316. ssued “May 1963”? * Turk, F.A. (1967) The non-aranean arachnid orders and the myriapods of British caves and mines. ''Transactions of the Cave Research Group of Great Britain'', 9 (3), 142–161.

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Frank Archibald Sinclair TURK - papers on Opiliones
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