Henry Forbes Feild (1822-1875) - Russian entomologist , one of the authors of the first catalog of Lepidoptera of the Russian Empire (Ershov N., Field A., 1870: Catalog of Lepidoptera of the Russian Empire. - Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society., IV: 130–204), which laid the foundation for generalizing faunal studies.
| Henry Andreevich Field | |
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| English Henry Forbes Feild | |
| Date of Birth | June 19, 1822 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg |
| Date of death | 1875 |
| Scientific field | entomology |
| Taxonomy of wildlife | |
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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 " Feild " . |
Biography
Born on June 19, 1822 in St. Petersburg in the family of a stockbroker who was engaged in the sale of linen products. Received primary education at home. Subsequently, he entered the Edinburgh Academy, where he was considered one of the best students, especially distinguished by successful studies in the natural sciences. A year after graduating from the Academy, he began working in St. Petersburg at the Wilson and Company office, where he served ten years as clerk. In 1848 he went for family reasons to East India. Over the course of two years in India, Field has assembled a huge collection of birds, a large number of hard-winged and Lepidoptera, most of which he returned to the Imperial Academy of Sciences upon his return. In 1850, Field began working at the Exchange as his father in seed business, but four years later, as a result of the Crimean War, he was forced to leave for Great Britain , from where he returned at the end of the war and married Francis Ketley, daughter of a St. Petersburg port merchant.
In 1870, together with his companion, Field opened his own trading house, Field and Sanderson, and remained his head until his death. Despite the fact that commercial activities took a long time, Field did not give up his interest in ornithology, and devoted the last ten years of his life to the study of Lepidoptera. Together with entomologist Nikolai Grigoryevich Ershov, he compiled and published in the fourth volume of the Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society for 1870 a catalog of lepidopteran Russian Empire, and then began compiling a bibliographic code of all publications written by this time about butterflies in Russia. This work, already after the death of Field, continued Nikolai Ershov.
Henry Field collected a large collection of Himalayan, North American, English and Australian butterflies through an exchange with E. Weir from London, Andrews from New York and Miskin from Brisbane. for several years, Field studied the Lepidoptera of St. Petersburg province. On his initiative, in 1874, a circle was formed of six metropolitan lepidopterologists, who gathered once a week from one of them, discussed the outline of a complete catalog of lepidopterans of the St. Petersburg province.
Heinrich Field discovered two butterflies new to the fauna of St. Petersburg: Hypena obesalis and Asopia regalis , and two species were named after him - Colias fieldii Ménétriés, 1855 and Rhodocleptria feildi (= Heliothis feildi ) (Erschoff, 1874).