William Forsell Kirby

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William Forsell Kirby is a Entomologiste and a specialist in the British Folklore , born the January 14th 1844 with Leicester and dead the November 20th 1912 with London.

It makes its studies near a tutor and very early is interested in the butterfly S. It makes appear, as of 1862, small a Manual off European Butterflies .

In 1867, it becomes preserving Muséum of the royal Société of Dublin. Kirby makes appear in 1871 off a Synonymic Catalog Diurnal Lepidoptera which it supplements in 1877.

In 1879, it joined the personnel of the British Museum as assistant after the death of Frederick Smith (1805-1879). It makes off appear then several catalogs of S like Rhopalocera Exotica (1887 - 1897) as well as a Elementary Text-book Entomology . It takes its retirement in 1909.

Kirby is interested on many subjects and is Polyglotte. He is the first English translator of the Finnish epopee Kalevala.

Its standard S is preserved today at the Muséum of natural history of London and part of its collection with national natural history museum of Dublin.

List partial of the publications

Manual off European Butterflies. 1862
Synonymic Catalogs Diurnal Lepidoptera off. 1871
Familiar butterflies and moths. 1901
Butterflies and moths off Europe (Illustrated). 1903
Kalevala the Land off Heroes. 1907.
Elementary Text-book off Entomology.
The Hero off Esthonia? and other studies in the romantic literature off that country. 1895
Hand-book to the order Lepidoptera. 1897

Kirby also takes part in the Illustrations off diurnal Lepidoptera of William Chapman Hewitson (1806-1878) which appears in 1863 and with Natural history of Richard Lydekker (1849-1915).

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