George Herbert Carpenter
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George Herbert Carpenter (1865–1939) was a British
entomologist,[1] born in the Peckham district of southeast London in 1865, and died in Belfast on 22 January 1939.[2][3][4] His main interests were in the study of insects and arachnids, zoogeography, and economic zoology.[2] In addition to numerous contributions to scientific journals and Encyclopædia Britannica, he authored five books.[5]
Education and career
Carpenter was privately educated as a youth, and studied at
His first employment as a naturalist was as a clerk in the
Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, devoting the next 16 years to developing the museum's collections on the natural history of Ireland.[2]
He was active in the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club and in 1892 he co-founded the Irish Naturalists' Journal, for which he was editor until his retirement in 1922.[2]
Publications
Carpenter contributed to a range of scientific journals and to Encyclopædia Britannica, and wrote five books:[5]
- Insects: Their Structure & Life, A Primer of Entomology. London: J. M. Dent, 1899.
- Catalogue of the Fishes of New York (with Tarleton Hoffman Bean). New York State Museum Bulletin No. 60; Zoology, No. 9. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1903.
- The Life-story of Insects. Cambridge: University press, and G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.
- Insect Transformation. London: Methuen, 1921.
- The Biology of Insects. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.
Personal
Carpenter was a son of George and Phoebe (née Hooper) Carpenter.[3] In 1891, he married Emma Eason of Dublin, with whom he had two sons.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Carpenter, George Herbert". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 297.
- ^ JSTOR 25532901.
- ^ a b c Henry R. Addison, Charles H. Oakes, William J. Lawson, and Douglas B. W. Sladen (eds.). 1907. Who's Who, An Annual Biographical Dictionary. London: Adam and Charles Black; New York: The Macmillan Company, Vol. 59, p. 297.
- ^ James McGuire & James Quinn (eds.): Dictionary of Irish Biography From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002, Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2009, pp. 364-365.
- ^ a b George Herbert Carpenter, (1865–1939), Wikisource, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:George_Herbert_Carpenter, last modified on 27 June 2011.
- ^ Moffat, 1939.
External links
- Works by George Herbert Carpenter at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Herbert Carpenter at Internet Archive
- . . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource.
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