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), Canterbury University
1877 - ?
Career position - Classics Teacher at Sydney Grammar School
1880 -
Award - Fellow, 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, The Royal Society, London (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
  • Meyrick, E., and Lower, O. B., 'Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 26 (1902), 38-129. Details
  • Meyrick, E., and Lower, O. B., 'Revision of the Australian Psychidae,', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 31 (1907), 192-208. Details
  • Robinson, Gaden S., 'Edward Meyrick: an unpublished essay on phylogeny', Journal of Natural History, 20 (2) (1986), 359-67. Details

Resources

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.

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