| RefNo | EC/1920/12 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 186; A05582 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Perkins, Robert Cyril Layton: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse |
| Citation | Consulting Entomologist to the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Distinguished for his devotion to the exploration and elucidation of the fauna of the Hawaiian Archipelago. In 1892 he was selected by a Committee appointed by the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society and by the British Association to examine the Hawaiian fauna, and, on his return in 1897, to help in reporting on his extensive collections. He returned to the islands in 1900 in order to obtain additional information as to variation and distribution. The results of his labours are published in the three volumes of 'The Fauna Hawaiiensis' in which he has described the greater part of the enormous number of new species discovered in the islands - the most isolated in the world - and formerly believed to be excessively poor. In the Introduction, published in 1913, he wrote a general account of the fauna and discussed its nature and origin. His work has added many thousands of specimens to the National Collection, some being of forms that are now extinct. He has rendered valuable services to the sugar industry in Hawaii, and in his travels in Australia or other parts of the world in order to discover natural means of controlling the ravages of sugarcane-destroying insects, he has thrown much new light on the insect fauna. In England he has specially devoted himself to the Hymenoptera, Aculeata, and during the past year, 1918, has brought before the Entomological Society important conclusions in this group of insects in the seasonal forms of British butterflies and in the pairing and parthenogenesis of Stylops. |
| Proposers | D Sharp; E B Poulton; F A Dixey; W Bateson; H Woodward; S F Harmer; T A Chapman |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA777 | Perkins; Robert Cyril Layton (1866 - 1955); entomologist | 1866 - 1955 |