- Harry Eltringham
Harry Eltringham (18 May 1873 ,
South Shields - 26 November 1941,Stroud ) was a English histologist andentomologist who specialised inLepidoptera .Eltringham worked at the
Hope Department of Entomology .He wrote "Histological and Illustrative Methods for Entomologists"Oxford, Clarendon Press (1930), The Senses of Insects, London, Methuen (1933) and on Lepidoptera Nymphalidae: Subfamily Acraeinae. "Lepidopterorum Catalogus" 11:1-65 withKarl Jordan (1913) and On specific and mimetic relationships in the genus Heliconius. "Transactions of the Entomological Society of London" 1916: 101–148.Eltringham was the author of a photograph of
Edward Bagnall Poulton taken through thecompound eye of a glowworm.He was a
Fellow of theRoyal Entomological Society (President 1931-32) and theRoyal Society .References
* Blair, K. G. 1941-1942 [Eltringham, H.] "Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London"
* Carpenter, G. D. H. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] "Nature" 149 72.
*Carpenter, G. D. H. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] . In "Obituary Notices of fellows of the Royal Society". London 4 113-128
*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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