George Francis Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson , tenth baronnet, is a British Entomologiste , born the January 14th 1860 and dead the October 15th 1936 with Thurnham Court, Maidstone.
Hampson studies with the Chaterhouse School and the Exeter College of Cambridge. He travels in India and becomes grower of The in the district of Nilgiri Hills with Madras (today Tamil Nadu). It is there that it starts to be interested in the butterfly S.
When it returns in Great Britain, it becomes voluntary with the British Museum and makes appear The Lepidoptera off the Nilgiri District (1891) and The Lepidoptera Heterocera off Ceylon (1893) which is constitute parts 8 and 9 of the Illustrations off Typical Specimens off Lepidoptera Heterocera off the British Museum . It begins its work entitled then The Fauna off British India, Moths in four volumes of 1892 with 1896.
Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1830-1914) engages it as assistant with the Natural history museum in March 1895. After having inherited its title of Baronnet in 1896, it east promoted preserving assisting in 1901. It carries out the Catalog then off the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum in fifteen volumes of 1898 with 1920.
Source
- Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of June 10th, 2006).
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