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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-11-20 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001310b.htm person Lyell George AACR2 25 July 1866 19 May 1951 Place of Birth Ararat, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Gisborne, Victoria, Australia Naturalist Entomologist George Lyell was a junior clerk then branch head with the butter, cheese and bacon manufacturer J Bartram & Son. He left in 1890 to take up a partnership with E. Cherry & Sons – makers of butter-factory and dairy appliances. They were also Victoria's only supplier of entomological equipment. However, Lyell's interest in entomology began before then: in 1888 when he captured a Caper White butterfly in a suburban park. Over the next sixty years, Lyell built up an enormous collection of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera). In 1932 he donated it to the Museum of Victoria and continued to add to it until 1951 when the specimens numbered around 45,000. He also worked tirelessly at the Museum until 1946 to integrate his specimens with the Museum's existing Lepidoptera collection. George Lyell wrote widely on his findings and his 1914 book Butterflies of Australia (with GA Waterhouse) became a classic reference book over the next twenty years. Lyell's other interests included orchids, and his collection of pressed orchids is held at the National Herbarium in Melbourne. c. 1883 c. 1890 Career position - Junior Clerk through to Head of the Dairy Machinery Branch of J. Bartram & Son in Kew, Victoria c. 1888 Career position - Member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria 1890 Career position - Partnership with E. Cherry & Sons accepted 1890 1929 Career position - Regularly submitted articles and notes to the Victorian Naturalist 1914 1914 Career position - Butterflies of Australia co-authored with GA Waterhouse 1932 1932 Career position - Donated his massive butterfly and moth collection to the Museum of Victoria National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

The Herbarium holds Lyell's collection of orchid specimens

 National Museum of Victoria (1858 - 1983)

Lyell donated his collection of approximately 45,000 Lepidoptera specimens to the Museum

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 Lyell, George (1866-1951)

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 'Lyell, George', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Lyell, George Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Musgrave, A. Bibliography of Australian entomology, 1775-1930: with biographical notes on authors and collectors Sydney Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1932 Journal Article: George Lyell and Frederick Parkhurst Dodd: authority and expertise in nineteenth-century Australian entomology, Coleman, D. George Lyell and Frederick Parkhurst Dodd: authority and expertise in nineteenth-century Australian entomology, 2021 Memoirs of Museum Victoria 80 169-81 Book Section: Lyell, George (1866-1951), naturalist Neboiss, A. Lyell, George (1866-1951), naturalist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 171 Journal Article: Biographical notes on George Lyell, Victorian lepidopterist, continued Hewish, Marilyn Biographical notes on George Lyell, Victorian lepidopterist, continued 2014 Victorian Entomologist 44 6 121-8 Journal Article: Biographical Notes on George Lyell, Victorian Lepidopterist [Part 1] Hewish, Marilyn Biographical Notes on George Lyell, Victorian Lepidopterist [Part 1] 2014 Victorian Entomologist 44 5 96-106 Journal Article: George Lyell, 1866-1951 Garnet, J. G.; and Burns, A. N. George Lyell, 1866-1951 1951 The Victorian naturalist 68 53-4 Journal Article: Conrad Kelsall: 'Butterflying' on the Little Mulgrave River, north Queensland, in 1903 Lambkin, Kevin J. Conrad Kelsall: 'Butterflying' on the Little Mulgrave River, north Queensland, in 1903 2013 Archives of Natural History 40 111-8