Alfred Edwin Eaton

Alfred Edwin Eaton (born December 1, 1844 in Little Bridy , Dorset , † March 23, 1929 in Northam ) was a British clergyman and entomologist.

Eaton was interested in natural history as a teenager. He studied at Cambridge (Bachelor 1868, Magister 1871) and was ordained a deacon in 1869 and a priest in 1870. He was curate or vicar in six parishes between 1869 and 1892, including Shepton Montague in Somerset (vicar 1887 to 1892). From 1892 to 1897 he was a chaplain in Algeria.

As an entomologist, he mainly dealt with two-winged , reticulated and mayflies and was especially considered an expert for the latter. His collection is in the Natural History Museum in London. He undertook collecting trips to Spitzbergen (on the expedition of B. Leigh Smith in 1873) and to South Africa and on the Kerguelen (British expedition to observe the passage of Venus in 1874/75), whereby the entomological finds were described by others at that time. On these trips he also collected plants. He later collected in Algeria (where he aroused suspicion while collecting and was temporarily imprisoned) and Madeira and Tenerife (1902).

His friend Robert MacLachlan gave him his collection of mayflies to study (which he himself was not interested in) and when MacLachlan proposed to the British Entomological Society a catalog of Britain's insects (which was discontinued soon after because of a dispute over the taxonomy of beetles ) Eaton wrote a monograph on mayflies in 1871 (revised from 1883 to 1888). Later he turned to the butterfly mosquitoes (Psychodidae) and intended to write a monograph as on the mayflies, but because of illnesses he could not do it (in 1894/95 he published a revision of the British species).

Richard Bowdler Sharpe named a duck after him ( Anas eatoni ) in 1875 . The mushroom ( Galera eatonii ( Berkeley 1876)) is named after him.

He was a member of the Entomological Society of London and from 1877 to 1879 on their council.

Fonts

Monograph on the Ephemeridae, 1871

literature

J. Peters, L. Arvy, WL Peters: Pictet et Eaton: The first Mayfly Specialists, in: Eric Marshall, Advances in Ephemeroptera Biology, Plenum Press 1980, p. 534, Google Books

Individual evidence

↑ According to Peters u. a. Pictet and Eaton, see literature. Adapted from Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, Taylor and Francis and Natural History Museum 1994, on April 25, 1845 in Little Bridge, Devon.

personal data
SURNAME	Eaton, Alfred Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British clergyman and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Little Bridy , Dorset
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1929
Place of death	Northam

[1] According to Peters u. a. Pictet and Eaton, see literature. Adapted from Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, Taylor and Francis and Natural History Museum 1994, on April 25, 1845 in Little Bridge, Devon.