George Herbert Carpenter (1865–1939) was a British naturalist and

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, born in the

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district of southeast

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in 1865, and died in

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on 22 January 1939.Henry R. Addison, Charles H. Oakes, William J. Lawson, and Douglas B. W. Sladen (eds.). 1907. ''Who's Who, An Annual Biographical Dictionary''. London: Adam and Charles Black; New York: The Macmillan Company, Vol. 59, p. 297.James McGuire & James Quinn (eds.): ''Dictionary of Irish Biography From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002'', Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2009, pp. 364-365. His main interests were in the study of

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s and arachnids, zoogeography, and economic zoology. In addition to numerous contributions to scientific journals and

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, he authored five books.''George Herbert Carpenter, (1865–1939)'', Wikisource, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Herbert_Carpenter, last modified on 27 June 2011.

Education and career

Carpenter was privately educated as a youth, and studied at

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, earning a

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degree at

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and a

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degree from

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.Moffat, 1939. His first employment as a naturalist was as a clerk in the

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, where he pursued an interest in the natural history of

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. In 1888, he took a position in

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as Assistant Naturalist at the

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, devoting the next 16 years to developing the museum's collections on the natural history of Ireland. He was active in the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club and in 1892 he co-founded the ''

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'', for which he was editor until his retirement in 1922.

Publications

Carpenter contributed to a range of scientific journals and to

, and wrote five books: * ''Insects: Their Structure & Life, A Primer of Entomology''. London: J. M. Dent, 1899. * ''Catalogue of the Fishes of New York'' (with Tarleton Hoffman Bean). New York State Museum Bulletin No. 60; Zoology, No. 9. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1903.
''The Life-story of Insects''
Cambridge: University press, and G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. * ''Insect Transformation''. London: Methuen, 1921. * ''The Biology of Insects''. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.

Personal

Carpenter was a son of George and Phoebe (née Hooper) Carpenter. In 1891, he married Emma Eason of Dublin, with whom he had two sons.

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