Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson
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Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson, (6 September 1840 – 15 September 1890) was an
Life and career
He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, studied at
He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862 and served in Bengal Presidency and the North-Western Provinces. Atkinson was a lawyer specialising in Indian law, and successively worked as Judge in a Small Cause Court, Deputy Commissioner of Paper Currency in Allahabad, and Accountant General of the North West Provinces. He was commissioned to produce a Gazetteer of Northwestern India and also wrote several books.
He was a Fellow of the
He died in
Works
- 1875 Descriptive and Historical Account of the Aligarh District, Oxford University Press
- 1881 Gazetteer of the Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces (3 volumes)
- 1885 Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 4. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 57: 118-184
- 1886 Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 5. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 58: 20-109
- 1890 Catalogue of the Insecta. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Family Capsidae. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (Nat. Sci. Suppl.) 58: 25-200
Collections
Heteroptera collection Natural History Museum BMNH and Dresden (via Staudinger & Otto Bang-Haas).
References
- ^ "Edwin Felix Atkinson". UCLA Social Sciences. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
Sources
Poggi and Conci (1996) for biographical information.
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