George Wheeler (1858 – 9 December 1947) was an

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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 ...

. The

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George Wheeler

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wrote ''Butterflies of Switzerland'' (1935), and completed Volume 11 of ''British Lepidoptera'' by James William Tutt, after the Tutt's death in 1911. He was an avid collector, especially of "varieties" of Lepidoptera. George Wheeler was a

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of the

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, sometime elected Secretary and Vice-President. In 1933 he was honoured as a Special Life Fellow. He was also a Fellow of the

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References

*Salmon, M. A. 2000 ''The Aurelian Legacy. British Butterflies and their Collectors''. Martins, Great Horkesley, Harley Books. English lepidopterists 1858 births 1947 deaths Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society Fellows of the Zoological Society of London {{UK-entomologist-stub