Henry Edwards ( born Henry Edwards ; August 27, 1827 , England - June 9, 1891 , New York ) is an American actor, writer, and entomologist [1] .
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " H. Edwards " . |
Biography
Born August 27, 1827 , Brook House, Ross-on-Wye , Herefordshire , England [2] . He spent his youth years in Australia. Since 1865, he lived and worked in San Francisco (California, USA) for about 12 years [3] . From 1868–1869, Edwards ran the Metropolitan Theater [4] , and was a founding member of the California Theater , which opened in January 1869 [5] . Edwards was also one of the founders and first vice president of the Bohemian Club, and from 1873–1875 served twice as its president [6] . Edwards spent all his free time studying insects and spent a lot of time at the California Academy of Sciences , studying butterflies under the direction of Hans Hermann Behr , academic curator of Lepidoptera [1] . Elected as a member of the academy in 1867, he concentrated on describing the structure and living conditions of butterflies on the Pacific coast of North America from British Columbia to southern California. In June 1871, Edwards visited the famous American naturalist John Muir in the Yosemite Valley . [7] Later he will name a new species of butterflies in his honor. In 1873, Edwards became the curator of the entomological department of the California Academy and began serving on the publishing committee for the organization of the journal Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences [8] .
In late 1878, Edwards began serving at a theater company in Boston . During the 1880 US Census, Edwards called himself an English-born actor, living with an English wife and a Chinese servant. [9] In 1886, Edwards gave an interview to the weekly theater magazine The Theater (New York), in which he was called unusually popular and brilliant [10] .
Scientific Papers
Edwards described many new species of butterfly species from the families Theclinae , Nymphalidae , Papilionidae, and Lycaenidae . He made the largest contribution to the study and description of Lepidoptera in North America (including Mexico): Arctiidae , Bombycidae , Hepialidae , Sesiidae , Noctuidae , Sphingidae , Lasiocampidae , Dalceridae , Dysderidae , Geometridae , Pyralidae , Saturniidaee , Thurnidaee , Thurnidaee , Thurnidaeee , Thurnidaeee , Thurnidaeee , Thurnidaeee , Thurnidaeee , Thurnidaeee , Thurnidaeee . He called some of the new species female characters of William Shakespeare's plays, such as Ophelia (from Hamlet ), Germany from the comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream , and Desdemona from Othello [12] . For example, Edwards collected, classified and described species of scoop butterflies Catocala ophelia [13] , Catocala hermia in 1880, [14] and Catocala desdemona in 1882 [15] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Remington, JE Henry Edwards (1830–1891) (neopr.) // The Lepidopterists' News. - 1948. - January ( t. II , No. 1 ). - S. 7 . (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Beutenmuller, William. Henry Edwards // The Canadian Entomologist . - Cambridge University Press , 1899. - July ( vol. 23 , no. 7 ). - P. 141-142 . - DOI : 10.4039 / Ent23141-7 .
- ↑ United States Census, 1870. San Francisco, 2d Precinct, 12th Ward, page 38. June 14, 1870.
- ↑ Shuck, Oscar T. Historical Abstract of San Francisco . - San Francisco: Oscar T. Shuck, 1897 .-- P. 84.
- ↑ Hendley, Alvis Landmark 86: Site of The California Theater. (inaccessible link) . California Historical Landmarks in San Francisco. . NoeHill in San Francisco (2004). Date of treatment December 31, 2009. Archived May 23, 2004.
- ↑ Bohemian Club (1904). Constitution, By-laws, and Rules, Officers, Committees, and Members , pp. 19–20, 69.
- ↑ Badè, William Frederic. The Life and Letters of John Muir . - Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. - P. 262-264.
- ↑ Edwards, Henry. A Tribute to George Robert Crotch (Neopr.) // Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. - California Academy of Sciences, 1875. - S. 332 .
- ↑ United States Census, 1880. Boston, Massachusetts, Enumeration District 772, Supervisor's District 60, page 29. June 8, 1880.
- ↑ Harvier, Evelyn. Harry Edwards at Home (Neopr.) // The Theater. - New York: Theater Publishing, 1886 .-- August 30 ( vol. 1 , No. 24 ). - S. 539-540 .
- ↑ The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . - Royal Entomological Society of London, 1891. - P. li – lii.
- ↑ Oehlke, Bill Catocala: Classification and Common Names (link not available) . The Catocala Website. Date of treatment July 23, 2009. Archived October 26, 2012.
- ↑ Silkmoths. Catocala ophelia . Archived August 22, 2010 at Wayback Machine Retrieved on January 8, 2010.
- ↑ Silkmoths. Catocala hermia . Archived August 22, 2010 at Wayback Machine Retrieved on January 8, 2010.
- ↑ Silkmoths. Catocala desdemona . Archived February 12, 2015 at Wayback Machine Retrieved on January 8, 2010.
Literature
- Beutenmuller, William. List of Writings of the Late Henry Edwards // The Canadian Entomologist . - London: Cambridge University Press , 1891. - December ( vol. XXIII , no. 12 ). - P. 259-267 . - DOI : 10.4039 / Ent23259-12 .
- Brown-May, Andrew; Tom W. May. 'A Mingled Yarn': Henry Edwards, Thespian and Naturalist, in the Austral Land of Plenty, 1853–1866 (Eng.) // Historical Records of Australian Science : journal. - 1997 .-- June ( vol. 11 , no. 3 ). - P. 407-418 .
- Garnett, Porter. The Bohemian Jinks: A Treatise . - San Francisco: The Bohemian Club, 1908.
- Tompkins, Eugene. The history of the Boston Theater, 1854–1901 . - Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.