Harry Eltringham FRS (18 May 1873,

South Shields South Shields () is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically, it was known in Roman times as Arbeia, and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages. According to the 20 ...

– 26 November 1941,

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) was an English histologist and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialised in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

Life

He had been awarded a Master of Science ( Cantab and

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) and a Doctor of Science (Oxon). He worked at the Hope Department of Entomology. He wrote ''Histological and Illustrative Methods for Entomologists'' , The Senses of Insects, London, Methuen (1933) and on Lepidoptera Nymphalidae: Subfamily Acraeinae. ''Lepidopterorum Catalogus'' 11:1-65 with Karl Jordan (1913) and On specific and mimetic relationships in the genus Heliconius. Eltringham was the author of a photograph of Edward Bagnall Poulton taken through the compound eye of a glowworm. He was an elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (President 1931-32) Riley, C. V. 1942 ltringham, H.''Entomologist'' 75 and in May, 1930 the Royal Society.

References

English lepidopterists 1873 births 1941 deaths Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society Fellows of the Royal Society People from South Shields Histologists {{UK-entomologist-stub