Biographical entry Meyrick, Edward (1854 - 1938)

Summary

Edward Meyrick was an entomologist with a passion for Microlepidoptera (butterflies and moths (miniature)). He is believed to have collected more specimens then anyone else and his collection of around 100,000 specimens is housed at the British Museum of Natural history. Meyrick spent about ten years in Australia teaching classics in Sydney and collecting insects in many parts of Australia and New Zealand. He was also a prolific writer and published over fifty articles in leading Australian and international journals.

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Events

1875

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at Canterbury University

1877 - ?

Career position - Classics Teacher at Sydney Grammar School

1880 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Entomology Society of London (FRES)

1885

Career position - Systemic collecting of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) at Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales

1886

Career position - Collecting expeditions to Tasmania and Western Australia

1887

Life event - Returned to England and to teaching classics

1902 -

Career position - Corresponding member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

1904 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

Published resources

Books

• Musgrave, A., Bibliography of Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., Sydney, 1932, 380 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Edward Meyrick, BA, FRS, FRS', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 1, no. 1, 1938, p. 24. Details

Online Resources

• 'Meyrick, Edward', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-505850. Details