William Joseph Rainbow
William Joseph Rainbow (born 1856 in Yorkshire , † November 21, 1919 in Sydney ) was an Australian arachnologist and entomologist . He was known for his work on Australian and Pacific spiders.
Rainbow was the son of an officer in the Royal Marines and grew up in various English port cities and Edinburgh. In 1873 he moved to New Zealand and became a journalist with the Wanganui Herald, led by the future Prime Minister John Ballance, who encouraged him to study biology. From 1883 he lived as a journalist in Sydney (Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, Evening News), worked for the Government Printing Office and from 1895 as an entomologist at the Australian Museum .
He was one of the founders and President of the Naturalists' Society of New South Wales, was a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, was on the Council of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London and the Linnean Society of London and member of the Société Entomologique de France .
He published around 70 scientific papers and first described around 200 species of spiders.
The spider Trittame rainbowi is named after him.
He had been married since 1883.
Fonts
- A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9, 1911, pp. 107-319
- Contribution to a knowledge of the Arachnidan fauna of British New Guinea. The proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sidney, 23 (3), 1898, 328-356
- Contribution to a knowledge of Papuan Arachnida. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 3 (5), 1899, 108-118.
- Arachnida from the South Seas. The proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sidney, 26 (4), 1903, 521-532, pl. xxvii.
- Arachnida from the Solomon Islands. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 10, 1913, 1-16.
- Scientific notes on an expedition into the northwestern regions of South Australia (h) Arachnida. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, 39, 1915, 707-842.
- Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 1 (3), 1920, 229-272.
- A guide to the study of Australian butterflies, TC Lothian, Melbourne, 1907
- Mosquitoes; their Habits and Distribution, Melbourne: Lothian 1908
literature
- Anthony Musgrave: Obituary William Joseph Rainbow. Records of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 13, 1920, pp. 87–91, excerpt , pdf
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rainbow, William Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian arachnologist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yorkshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1919 |
| Place of death | Sydney |