Arthur Gardiner Butler

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Arthur Gardiner Butler

Arthur Gardiner Butler (born June 27, 1844 in London , † May 28, 1925 in Beckenham , Kent ) was a British entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist who worked for the British Museum on the systematics of birds, insects and spiders for a long time .

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Arthur Gardiner Butler grew up on Cheyne Walk in the Chelsea borough of London. He was the son of Thomas Butler, an employee of the British Museum who in 1857 became assistant secretary to Antonio Panizzi , director of the British Museum's library. Butler was trained at St Paul's School . He later took a year of art classes at the Art School in South Kensington . From 1863 until his health deteriorated in 1901, he worked for the British Museum. In 1879 he became assistant curator of the arthropod department and in 1895 of the insect department. In recognition of his entomological work, Butler received an honorary doctorate from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1893 . In addition to several entomological works, Butler has published books on birds (particularly on oology and aviculture ) and he wrote for the magazine The Feathered World . In his archaeological works he dealt with the arachnofauna of Australia , the Galápagos Islands and Madagascar .

Butler was a member of the Royal Entomological Society , the Linnean Society of London , the Zoological Society of London and the British Ornithologists' Union .

Works (selection)

Arachnology

  • A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma (1873)
  • A monographic list of the species of Gasteracantha, or crab-spiders (1873)

entomology

  • Catalog of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the family Satyridae in the collection of the British Museum (1868)
  • Catalog of Diurnal Lepidoptera Described by Fabricius in the Collection of the British Museum (1870)
  • Lepidoptera Exotica, or, Descriptions and illustrations of exotic lepidoptera (1869–1874)
  • Tropical Butterflies and Moths (1873)
  • Catalog of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand (1874)
  • The Butterflies of Malacca (1879).
  • with Herbert Druce (1846–1913), Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica. Cistula entomologica , 1: S. 95-118 (1872).
  • List of insects collected by Miss Elizabeth Taylor in North America in the summer of 1892 (1893)

Ornithology

  • British Birds' Eggs : a handbook of British oology (1886)
  • Foreign finches in Captivity (1895–1896) illustrated by Frederick William Frohawk
  • Foreign birds for cage and aviary , Order Passeres ... (1896–1897) illustrated by Frederick William Frohawk (1861–1946)
  • Contributions to British Birds with their Nests and Eggs Volumes I, II and III. (1896–1899) illustrated by Frederick William Frohawk
  • Birds' Eggs of the British Isles (1904) illustrated by Frederick William Frohawk
  • Birds of Great Britain and Ireland 2nd volumes (1907–1908), illustrated by Frederick William Frohawk and Henrik Grönvold

literature

  • Obituary Arthur Gardiner Butler In: The Entomologist's monthly magazine , Volume 61, p. 167, 1925.
  • Mullens, William Herbert & Swann, Harry Kirke (1917 / Reprint 1986): A Bibliography of British Ornithology . ISBN 0-854-86098-3

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personal data
SURNAME Butler, Arthur Gardiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butler, AG; Butler, Arthur G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist, entomologist and arachnologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1925
Place of death Beckenham , Kent