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The following is a list of entomologists, scientists who study insects. Name Born Died Country Speciality ... Economic history of entomology: Ernest Candèze: 1827: ...
Plate from Henry Walter Bates's 1862 paper Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley: Heliconiidae. Entomology, the scientific study of insects and closely related terrestrial arthropods, has been impelled by the necessity of societies to protect themselves from insect-borne diseases, crop losses to pest insects, and insect-related discomfort, as well as by people's natural curiosity.
There has also been a history of people becoming entomologists through museum curation and research assistance, [11] such as Sophie Lutterlough at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Insect identification is an increasingly common hobby, with butterflies [12] and (to a lesser extent) dragonflies being the most popular. [13]
Walter Rothschild gives his insect collection, one of the world's largest collections of Lepidoptera, to the Natural History Museum. 1936. The Natural History Museum, London acquires the James John Joicey collection of Lepidoptera. 1938. Lucien Chopard La biologie des orthoptères (Paul Lechevalier, Paris).
In: Supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica, with preliminary dissertations on the history of the sciencesan important systematic work. 1822 Jacob Johann Hagenbach Insectorum Helvetiae exhibentia vel species novas vel nondum depictas. Basel; 1823 Philipp Franz von Siebold begins natural history studies ...
The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre. Introduction and Interpretive Comments by Edwin Way Teale; foreword to 1991 edition by Gerald Durrell. Published by Dodd, Mead in 1949; Reprinted by Beacon Press in 1991; ISBN 0-8070-8513-8; The Life of the Spider (1912) (Translated) preface by Maurice Maeterlinck Scanned book, Wikisource full text
William Kirby (19 September 1759 – 4 July 1850) was an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country rector, so that he was an eminent example of the "parson-naturalist".
David Penny (born 1939), New Zealand biologist known for theoretical biology, molecular evolution, human evolution, and the history of science; Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), French botanist [285] who studied the plants of Madagascar. George Perry (born 1771), English naturalist, author of Conchology, or the natural history of shells