J.W. Tutt
James William Tutt (26 April 1858–10 January 1911) was an England, English schoolteacher and entomologist. He was a founding editor of the journal ''Entomologists' Record'' from 1890 and published a landmark series on the ''British Lepidoptera'' in which he described numerous species of moths and was among the first to notice industrial melanism in the pepper moth ''Peppered moth, Biston betularia'' and was among the first to provide a clear explanation of their increasing frequency based on the role of crypsis, natural selection by predators, and the effect of changed environmental conditions brought on by industrialism. Tutt was born in Strood, Strood, Kent and went to the St. Nicholas Schools before going to St. Mark's Training College, Chelsea in 1876. He matriculated in the University of London and became a headmaster at Snowfields Board School followed by Webb Street School and Higher Grade School in Portman Place. Tutt was interested in insects from the age of thirteen b ...
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