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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-07-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001914b.htm person Meyrick Edward FRS FRES AACR2 24 November 1854 31 March 1938 Place of Birth England Place of Death England Entomologist Teacher 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. 1875 1875 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), Canterbury University 1877 Career position - Classics Teacher at Sydney Grammar School 1880 Award - Fellow, Royal Entomology Society of London (FRES) 1885 1885 Career position - Systemic collecting of moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) at Mt Kosciusko, New South Wales 1886 1886 Career position - Collecting expeditions to Tasmania and Western Australia 1887 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, The Royal Society, London (FRS) Lower, Oswald Bertram (1864 - 1925)

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 'Meyrick, Edward', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Meyrick, Edward Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Edward Meyrick, 1854 - 1938 Hill, Arthur W. Edward Meyrick, 1854 - 1938 1939 Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 2 7 530-48 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: Obituary: Edward Meyrick, BA, FRS, FRS Obituary: Edward Meyrick, BA, FRS, FRS 1938 Australian Journal of Science 1 1 24 Journal Article: Revision of the Australian Psychidae, Meyrick, E., and Lower, O. B. Revision of the Australian Psychidae, 1907 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31 192-208 Journal Article: Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae Meyrick, E., and Lower, O. B. Revision of the Australian Hesperiadae 1902 Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 26 38-129 Journal Article: Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 1854 - 1938 H., G. V. Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 1854 - 1938 1939 Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 68 2 141-2 Journal Article: Edward Meyrick: an unpublished essay on phylogeny Robinson, Gaden S. Edward Meyrick: an unpublished essay on phylogeny 1986 Journal of Natural History 20 2 359-67 Book Section: Landmarks in the taxonomy of Lepidoptera Common, I. F. B. Landmarks in the taxonomy of Lepidoptera Collingwood, Vic. CSIRO 1983 Australian systematic entomology: a bicentenary perspective Highley, E. and Taylor, R. W. 20-33