Henry Tibbats Stainton

Henry Tibbats Stainton (born August 13, 1822 in London , † December 2, 1892 in Lewisham ) was a British entomologist and expert on small butterflies .

Henry Tibbats Stainton

Stainton grew up in Lewisham and attended King's College London. His main job was a businessman like his father. Around 1840 he began to study entomology.

In 1871 he was one of the founders of the Zoological Record Association and became its secretary. He was President in 1881/82 and Secretary of the Royal Entomological Society in 1850/51 , of which he had been a member since 1848. In 1867 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1859 of the Linnean Society of London , whose secretary he was from 1869 to 1874 and whose vice-president he was from 1883 to 1885. From 1864 and 1867 to 1872 he was Secretary of the Natural History Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . From 1861 to 1872 he was secretary of the Ray Society . He was a member of the French and Italian entomological societies and that of Szczecin and an honorary member of the Belgian and Swiss entomological societies.

In 1864 he founded the Entomologists Monthly Magazine with friends, and in 1855 he founded The Entomologists Annual , which lasted until 1874, and in 1856 the Entomologists Weekly Intelligencer .

He was married to Isabel Dunn since 1846.

Fonts

• with John William Douglas , Philipp Christoph Zeller , Heinrich Frey : The Natural History of the Tineina, 13 volumes, London: Van Voorst, 1855 to 1873 (English, French, German and Latin editions were published)
• An Attempt at a Systematic Catalog of the British Tineidae and Pterophoridae, London, 1849.
• A Supplementary Catalog of the British Tineidæ and Pterophoridae London, 1851.
• The Entomologists' Companion, London, 1852, 2nd edition 1854.
• Insecta Britannica: Lepidoptera: Tineina, London, 1854; 3. Supplement 1856.
• June: a book for the Country in Summer Time, London 1856.
• A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 2 volumes, London, from 1856
• The Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor, London, 1867.
• British Butterflies and Moths, London, 1867
• The Tineina of Southern Europe, London: Van Voorst, 1869.

He was also in the Ray Society William Bucklers The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths out and Catalog of British Lepidoptera (in the British Museum) , 2nd edition 1859 by James Francis Stephens and 1872 The Tineina of North America from Brackenridge Clemens .

literature

• Bernard Barham Woodward, in Dictionary of National Biography , wikisource