Many of the objects he had collected from China, Egypt, Peru, Africa, Australia, Assam, Polynesia and North America were bequeathed to the British Museum in 1920 while her also donated some Australian items to the Plymouth City Museum.
[3] He first travelled to Egypt in 1899 as an assistant to the zoologist George Albert Boulenger of the British Museum (Natural History) on an ichthyological survey of the Nile.
He then married and took residence at Mevagissy, Cornwall where he pursued an interest in horticulture.
[1] Loat is honoured in the specific names of at least two species of fish, Micropanchax loati[4] a killifish he collected at Lake No in South Sudan[5] and the cichlid Haplochromis loati which Loat collected at Gondokoro in South Sudan, in 1902.
[6] He received the 4th class of the Imperial Ottoman Order of Osmanieh in 1902, conferred by the Khedive of Egypt for work that year on making a collection of Nile fish for the Egyptian government.