Edward Meyrick

Edward Meyrick
Born(1854-11-25)25 November 1854
Ramsbury
Died31 March 1938(1938-03-31) (aged 83)
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forHandbook of British Lepidoptera (1895)
Scientific career
FieldsLepidopterology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Meyrick

Edward Meyrick FRS[1] (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938[2]) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics.[3][4]

  1. ^ Hill, A. W. (1939). "Edward Meyrick. 1854–1938" (PDF). Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2 (7): 531–548. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1939.0014.
  2. ^ Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 1854–1938. in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 68, pp. 141–142.
  3. ^ Robinson, G. (1986). "Edward Meyrick: An unpublished essay on phylogeny". Journal of Natural History. 20 (2): 359–367. Bibcode:1986JNatH..20..359R. doi:10.1080/00222938600770261.
  4. ^ Salmon, Michael A.; Marren, Peter & Harley, Basil (2000). The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors. University of California Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 978-0-520-22963-1.