Edward Doubleday

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Edward Doubleday (born October 9, 1810 in Epping (Essex) , † December 14, 1849 in London ) was a British entomologist and ornithologist . He was particularly concerned with butterflies.

Live and act

Edward Doubleday came from a Quaker family and his father was a retailer. He was the brother of Henry Doubleday and was interested in nature research from childhood, collecting with his brother in the Epping Forest. Its first scientific publication took place in 1832. From 1839 he was an assistant in the zoological department of the British Museum , after trying unsuccessfully in 1839 to take part in an expedition to Niger as a naturalist.

Doubleday was secretary of the Entomological Society at the time of his death.

In 1835 he was also on a collecting trip in the USA for two years, especially on the east coast, where he mainly collected insects. On his return he published on the results of the trip, including an essay on alligators in Florida.

Memberships

In 1845 Doubleday was introduced by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 296 of the Société cuviérienne .

Fonts

  • The Natural History of North America, Entomological Magazine 1838
  • Lepidoptera of North America, being the result of Nineteen Months 'Travel', Magazine of Natural History 1840
  • with John Obadiah Westwood : The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalog of the species of each genus, Longmans 1846 to 1852, Biodiversity Library
  • List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, London, British Museum 1844 to 1847, Biodiversity Library
  • Nomenclature of British Birds, Van Voorst 1839

literature

  • Ray Desmond (eds.), Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists, Taylor and Francis 1994, Google Books
  • William Jerome Harrison, Article Edward Doubleday in Dictionary of National Biography , Online
  • Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 8 , 1845, p. 206 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth 1910 according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition 2004 and the obituary in the Proc. Linnean Society of London 1850, p. 84. It is sometimes also given in 1811.
  2. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 206.
personal data
SURNAME Doubleday, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Epping (Essex)
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1849
Place of death London