Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe, born on 11 December 1868, was an

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entomologist, colourist and illustrator Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe was the eldest of ten daughters of

Richard Bowdler Sharpe Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several mo ...

(1847–1909) and Emily Eliza Sharpe (née Burrows; 1842–1928). She had 11 sisters and one brother who died in infancy. She learned her craft from her father and initially she worked as a colourist on her father's books before dedicating herself to the study of butterflies. She worked throughout her life on butterflies, and described many new

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Selected works

*Descriptions of new Species of East-African Butterflies ''

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''(6) 5 (28) : 335-336 (1890) *Descriptions of some new Species of Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Herbert Ward at Bangala, on the Congo ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'' (6) 7 (37) : 130-135 (1891) *Descriptions of New Butterflies collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S:, in

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, during his recent Expedition. - Part I & II ''Proceedings of the

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'' 1891 : 187–194, pl. 16-17 633–638, pl. 48. (1891, 1892) *Further Descriptions of Butterflies and Moths collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson in Eastern Africa ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. (6) 5 (30) : 440-443 (1890) *A List of the Lepidopterous Insects collected on the Red Sea, in the neighbourhood of Suakim. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1897(3):775-777 (1897) *On a collection of lepidopterous insects from San Domingo. With field notes by the collector, Dr.

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- 1898(3): 362-369 (1898) * A List of the Lepidopterous Insects collected by Mrs. Lort Phillips in Somaliland. ''Proceedings of the zoological Society of London'' 1898(3):369-372(1898) *A list of Lepidoptera collected by Dr. Cuthbert Christy in Nigeria ''Entomologist'' 35 : 65–68, 101-107 (1902) *On new species of Butterflies from Equatorial Africa ''Entomologist'' 37 : 131-134 (1904) *Descriptions of new Lepidoptera from Equatorial Africa ''Entomologist'' 37 : 181-183 (1904) *Description of two new species belonging to the family Nymphalidae ''Entomologist'' 40 : 155-156 (1907) *A monograph of the genus ''

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'' London, L. Reeve & Co.(1914)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowdler Sharpe, Emily Mary Bowdler English lepidopterists Women entomologists 1869 births 1928 deaths