Henley Grose-Smith (1833–1911) was an English
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 ...
.
Grose-Smith described many new taxa of butterflies from his own collections and those of
Walter Rothschild
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...
. His collections were sold to
James John Joicey in 1910. Most of his
type specimen
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s are in the
Natural History Museum London
Publications
Partial list
*1887-1902 with
William Forsell Kirby ''Rhopalocera exotica; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies''.London :Gurney & Jackson,1887-1902
complete text and plates*1887 Description of six new species of Butterflies captured by Mr. John Whitehead at Kina Balu Mountain, North Borneo, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith ''Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.'' (5) 20: 432-435
*1889 Descriptions of new species of butterflies captured by Mr. C.M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands ''Ent. Mon. Mag''. 25: 299-303
*1894 Descriptions of eight new species of butterflies from New Britain and Duke of York Islands in the collections of the Hon. W. Rothschild and Mr. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist''. (6) 13 (78): 496-502
*1894 An Account of a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera from New Guinea (Parts I-III) - made by Mr. W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, and in neighbouring islands, in the Museum of the honourable Walter Rothschild at Tring, with descriptions of new species ''Novit. zool.'' 1 (2): 331-365 543-551 (3): 571-584
*1894 Descriptions of nine new species of butterflies, from the Sattelberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea, in the collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and H. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton ''Novit. Zool.'' 1 (3): 585-590
*1897 Descriptions of further new Species of Butterflies from the Pacific Island ''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist''. (6) 20: 515-518
*1898 Description of two new species of butterflies of the genus Thysonotis Hübner,
819
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Year 819 (Roman numerals, DCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – Emperor Louis the Pious, Louis I marries Judith ...
''Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.'' (7) 2 (11): 404-405
External links
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English lepidopterists
1833 births
1911 deaths