Augustus Daniel Imms

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Augustus Daniel Imms
Tipton St. John, Devon

Augustus Daniel Imms

entomologist. He wrote several textbooks about entomology with Imms' General Textbook of Entomology last being published in 1977 as a 10th edition.[2][3]

Early life

Augustus was the elder of two children, his sister dying before him. His father, Walter Imms, worked at Lloyds Bank. His mother, Mary Jane Daniel, was born at Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., of English parents who returned to England a few years later. He was among the few in his family who took to science.

He suffered from

mycologist. His interest in natural history was however encouraged most by C. F. Olney of the Northampton Natural History Society. He bought Robert Bentley Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology when he was about seventeen years old, and this had George Newport's detailed article on the 'Insecta'.[1][4]

Later life

Imms studied science at

A. E. Shipley. He received his MSc in 1906 from the University of Birmingham. He worked as a student demonstrator and assistant demonstrator in zoology at Birmingham.[5]

In 1911, Imms received an offer from the Government of India to become Forest entomologist at

Rothamsted Experimental Station, urging the authorities to set up an entomology department which they did and in 1918 with him as Chief Entomologist.[1]

The first edition of his A General Textbook of Entomology appeared in 1925, published by Methuen and remained in print until his death. By then it had become the premier entomological textbook, rivaled at that time only by the earlier An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock. After Imms' death, three more editions were produced by Owain Richards and Richard Gareth Davies, with their final, tenth edition appearing in 1977.[6]

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society[1] and the Royal Entomological Society.

In 1947 he was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books

  • Imms, A.D. (1934). A general textbook of entomology: Including the anatomy, physiology, development and classification of insects. Dutton.
  • Imms, A.D. (1937). Recent Advances in Entomology. London: J.A. Churchill Ltd.
  • Imms, A.D. (1947). Insect Natural History. London: Collins.

Journal articles

References

  1. ^
    S2CID 178311231
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  2. doi:10.1038/156712a0
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  3. doi:10.1038/163712a0
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  4. ^ Newport, George (1839). Insecta: From the Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology. Marchant. (128 pages)
  5. ^ National Archives of India 1907 File:PR_000003045906 Imms candidature for Professor of biology at Muir College
  6. ISBN 978-0-412-15210-8
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