Hugh Scott (1885–1960) was a British

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

and biogeographer. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in

1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...

. He worked as curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and as assistant keeper in the Department of Entomology,

British Museum (Natural History) The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum an ...

. He was a close friend and coworker of

G. Evelyn Hutchinson George Evelyn Hutchinson (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecolog ...

. Taxa named after him include: * '' Eunidia scotti'' * '' Niphoparmena scotti'' * '' Hugoscottia'' (A subgenus of ''

Enochrus ''Enochrus'', a genus of water scavenger beetles, is the third-largest genus of hydrophilids with 229 species in six subgenera worldwide. Subgenera *''Enochrus'' Thomson, 1859 *''Hocophilydrus'' Kniz, 1911 *''Hugoscottia'' Knisch, 1922 *''Hyda ...

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* * 1885 births 1960 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society British entomologists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Employees of the Natural History Museum, London Academics of the University of Cambridge 20th-century British zoologists {{UK-entomologist-stub