Person
Meyrick, Edward (1854 - 1938)
FRS FRES
- Born
- 24 November 1854
England - Died
- 31 March 1938
England - Occupation
- Entomologist and Teacher
Summary
Edward Meyrick was an entomologist with a passion for Microlepidoptera (butterflies and moths (miniature)). He is believed to have collected more specimens then anyone else and his collection of around 100,000 specimens is housed at the British Museum of Natural history. Meyrick spent about ten years in Australia teaching classics in Sydney and collecting insects in many parts of Australia and New Zealand. He was also a prolific writer and published over fifty articles in leading Australian and international journals.
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Chronology
- 1875
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at Canterbury University
- 1877 - ?
- Career position - Classics Teacher at Sydney Grammar School
- 1880 -
- Award - Fellow of the Royal Entomology Society of London (FRES)
- 1885
- Career position - Systemic collecting of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) at Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales
- 1886
- Career position - Collecting expeditions to Tasmania and Western Australia
- 1887
- Life event - Returned to England and to teaching classics
- 1902 -
- Career position - Corresponding member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1904 -
- Award - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
Published resources
Books
- Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1932), 380 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Edward Meyrick, BA, FRS, FRS', Australian Journal of Science, 1 (1) (1938), 24. Details
- H., G. V., 'Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 1854 - 1938', Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 68 (2) (1939), 141-2. Details
- Hill, Arthur W., 'Edward Meyrick, 1854 - 1938', Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 2 (7) (1939), 530-48. Details
- Robinson, Gaden S., 'Edward Meyrick: an unpublished essay on phylogeny', Journal of Natural History, 20 (2) (1986), 359-67. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2363920. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92187509. Details
- 'Meyrick, Edward (18541124-19380331)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-505850. Details
See also
- Common, I. F. B., 'Landmarks in the taxonomy of Lepidoptera' in Australian systematic entomology: a bicentenary perspective, Highley, E. and Taylor, R. W., eds (Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO, 1983), pp. 20-33. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 June 2022
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