Harry Eltringham
Harry Eltringham | |
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Born | 18 May 1873 |
Died | 26 November 1941 |
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Harry Eltringham FRS[1] (18 May 1873, South Shields – 26 November 1941, Stroud) was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.[2]
Life
He had been awarded a Master of Science (Cantab and Oxon) and a Doctor of Science (Oxon).
He worked at the Hope Department of Entomology. He wrote Histological and Illustrative Methods for Entomologists OCLC 03655743, The Senses of Insects, London, Methuen (1933) and on Lepidoptera Nymphalidae: Subfamily Acraeinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 11:1-65 with Karl Jordan (1913) and On specific and mimetic relationships in the genus Heliconius.[3]
Eltringham was the author of a photograph of Edward Bagnall Poulton taken through the compound eye of a glowworm.
He was an elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (President 1931-32) [4][5][6] and in May, 1930 the Royal Society.[1]
References
- ^ a b Carpenter, G. D. H. (1942). "Harry Eltringham. 1873-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (11): 113โ126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1942.0011.
- ^ Carpenter, G. D. H. (1942). "Dr. H. Eltringham, F.R.S". Nature. 149 (3768): 72. Bibcode:1942Natur.149...72C. doi:10.1038/149072a0.
- ^ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1916: 101โ148.
- ^ Blair, K. G. 1941-1942 [Eltringham, H.] Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London
- ^ Lloyd, R. W. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 78 16.
- ^ Riley, C. V. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] Entomologist 75
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