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RefNoEC/1887/16
Previous numbersCert XI, 131
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TitleGrey, Thomas de 6th Baron Walsingham: certificate of election to the Royal Society
DescriptionNote at foot of certificate: 'Addenda - See over'. Addenda to citation appear on reverse of certificate
CitationTrustee of the British Museum, a practical Entomologist and ardent student and collector of the Microlepidoptera, of which he has an extensive private collection. In 1872 Lord Walsingham made a special expedition to Northern California and Oregon and besides forming a large series of the Misrolepidoptera of that district - many of which were unknown - obtained a good collection of other Natural History specimens which he presented to the Cambridge Museum.
Addenda (1887) - Dr Gunther
Author of - Catalogue of North American Tortricidae in the British Museum. 4to being Part IV of "Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidopera Heterocera" 1879. Published by the writers
On some probable causes of a tendency to melanic variation in Lepidoptera of high latitudes (Presidential address) Trans Yorkshire Naturalists Union, 1885
And various papers in the Transactions of the Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Zoological Society (1880-84)
ProposersFrom General Knowledge: Richard Owen
From Personal Knowledge: P L Sclater; Osbert Salvin; Walden; Robert Hudson; H T Stainton; Alfred Newton; A Gunther; R McLachlan; J Fayrer; W H Flower; St George Mivart; Henry Woodward; J A Grant Lt Col
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Grey, Thomas de 6th Baron Walsingham: certificate of election to the Royal Society

Grey, Thomas de 6th Baron Walsingham: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA7129Grey; Thomas de (1843 - 1919); 6th Baron Walsingham1843 - 1919
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