Peter Cameron (entomologist)
Peter Cameron ( 1847 - December 1, 1912 in New Mills , Derbyshire ) was a British entomologist . He was an expert on hymenoptera (Hymnoptera).
An amateur entomologist, he described many new species (his collection is in the Natural History Museum ), despite having modest resources and health problems himself. Most recently, he lived in New Mills on grants from the Royal Society.
He made many copies of his collection available to Abbé Jean-Jacques Kieffer (1856–1925), a teacher and Catholic priest in Bitche in Lorraine, who also named species after Cameron.
Fonts
- A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera, 4 volumes, Ray Society , 1882, 1885, 1890, 1893
- Hymnoptera, in Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1883 to 1900
literature
- BR Subba Rao, History of Entomology in India 1998, p. 28
Web links
Commons : Peter Cameron - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ David G. Notton, A catalog of the types of Diapriinae (Hymnoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy, 75, 2014, pp. 1–123, here p. 3, PDF (759 kB ; English)
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| SURNAME | Cameron, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1847 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1912 |
| Place of death | New Mills , Derbyshire |