Augustus Daniel Imms

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Augustus Daniel Imms

Augustus Daniel Imms (born August 14, 1880 in Moseley , Birmingham , † April 3, 1949 in Tipton St. John ) was a British entomologist .

Life

Imms studied biology at Mason University College in Birmingham and at the University of London with a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1903. He was then assistant to Thomas William Bridge (1849-1909) in Birmingham and after receiving an 1851 exhibition scholarship to Cambridge to Arthur Everett Shipley . In 1911 he became a state entomologist in the Indian forest administration in Dehra Dun . In 1913 he went back to England for health reasons and became a reader for agricultural entomology under the owner of the zoology chair Sydney J. Hickson in Manchester. In 1918 he became chief entomologist at the Rothamsted Experimental Station.

He is known for his textbook on entomology, which was first published in 1925, which was successful in English-speaking countries. After his death it saw two more editions with Owain Richards and Richard Gareth Davies as editors (up to the 10th edition in 1977).

membership

In 1947 Imms was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Entomological Society .

Fonts

  • A general textbook of entomology: Including the anatomy, physiology, development and classification of insects, Methuen 1925, 7th edition 1948
  • Recent advances in entomology, London: Churchill 1931, 2nd edition Philadelphia: Blakiston 1937, Biodiversity Library
  • Insect Natural History, New Naturalist, Collins, London 1947
  • with Frederick Ernest Weiss, Wilfrid Robinson: Plants in health and disease: being an abstract of a course of lectures delivered in the University of Manchester during the session 1915-16, Longmans, Green 1916, Biodiversity Library

literature

  • Vincent Wigglesworth : Augustus Daniel Imms. 1880-1949, Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 6, 1949, pp. 462-470

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved October 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Imms, Augustus Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Moseley , Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1949
Place of death Tipton St. John