Harry Eltringham
Harry Eltringham FRS (18 May 1873, South Shields – 26 November 1941, Stroud) was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
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Harry Eltringham
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- Born
- 18 May 1873
- Died
- 26 November 1941
- Field
- * histology
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- lepidopterist · scientific illustrator · photographer
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society · Fellow of the Royal Society
- Languages
- English
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Harry Eltringham FRS (18 May 1873, South Shields – 26 November 1941, Stroud) was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
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• Honorific Suffix — FRS • Born — 18 May 1873 • Died — 26 November 1941 • Field — * histology • entomology
Life
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, 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. 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 Zoological Society of London (FZS) from 1903, and of the Royal Entomological Society (President 1931-32) and in May 1930 the Royal Society.
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Harry Eltringham is recorded as having received Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Fellow of the Royal Society.
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1873
Harry Eltringham was born in 1873.
1941
Harry Eltringham died in 1941.
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- 1.Carpenter, G. D. H. Harry Eltringham. 1873-1941. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4. 11. 113–126. 1942. 10.1098/rsbm.1942.0011.
- 2.Carpenter, G. D. H. Dr. H. Eltringham, F.R.S. Nature. 149. 3768. 72. 1942. 10.1038/149072a0.
- 3.Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1916: 101–148.
- 4.The Zoological Society. 37009. 9. 20 February 1903.
- 5.Blair, K. G. 1941-1942 [Eltringham, H.] Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London
- 6.Lloyd, R. W. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 78 16.
- 7.Riley, C. V. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] Entomologist 75
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