| Authorised form of name | Eltringham; Harry (1873 - 1941); entomologist |
| Dates | 1873 - 1941 |
| Nationality | English |
| Place of birth | South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England |
| Date of birth | 18 May 1873 |
| Place of death | Stroud, Gloucestershire, England |
| Date of death | 26/11/1941 |
| Occupation | entomologist |
| Research field | Insect taxonomy |
| Histology |
| Entomology |
| Activity | Education:
outh Shields High School; Durham School; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA); MA (Cantab and Oxon); DSc (Oxon)
Career: Worked for his father's shipbuilding business; pursued the study of insects; worked at the Hope Department of Entomology.
Membersips:
Royal Entomological Society (President 1931-32) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/05/1930 |
| Age at election | 57 |
| Proposer | Alfred William Alcock; John Graham Kerr; Charles Tate Regan; Robin John Tillyard; Charles Scott Sherrington |
| Edwin Stephen Goodrich; Reginald Crundall Punnett; John William Heslop Harrison; Augustus Daniel Imms; Peter Chalmers Mitchell; George Henry Falkiner Nuttall; Sidney Frederic Harmer; David Bruce; Sydney John Hickson; Frederick William Gamble; Ronald Ross |
| Edward Bagnall Poulton; Rothschild; Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall; Robert Newstead; Frederick Augustus Dixey; William Bateson; Robert Cyril Layton Perkins; John Stanley Gardiner; Arthur Everett Shipley |
| Relationships | Parents: Joseph Toward Eltringham and Eleanor Adshead. |
| OtherInfo | Specialised in Lepidoptera. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 113-128, plate, by G D Hale Carpenter |
| Code | NA1396 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1930/07 | Eltringham, Harry: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/35/68 | Referee's report by Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, on a paper 'On the production of silk by species of the genus Hilara meig. (Diptera)' by Harry Eltringham | October 1927 |
| RR/49/54 | Referee's report by Harry Eltringham, on a paper 'Inflammation in caterpillars of Lepidoptera' by Gordon Roy Cameron | [January 1934] |
| NLB/71/704 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John William] Heslop Harrison, FRS | 9 October 1928 |
| NLB/73/153 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Harry] Eltringham, FRS | 8 January 1931 |
| NLB/73/208 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Harry] Eltringham, FRS | 28 February 1931 |
| NLB/73/368 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir George Hadcock, K.B.E., FRS | 9 July 1931 |
| RR/51/8 | Referee's report by Augustus Daniel Imms, on a paper 'The epigamic behaviour of Euplœa (crastia) core asela (Moore) (lepidoptera danainæ) - with a description of the structure of the scent organs - A—The telegamic (courtship) flight of the male E. core asela' by Oswald H Latter and Harry Eltringham | [January 1935] |
| RR/60/63 | Referee's report by Harry Eltringham, on a paper 'Studies on the embyology of the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides Reiche and Frm. (Orthoptera, Acrididae) II - Organogeny' by Mithan Lal Roonwal | 10 August 1936 |
| MC/26/80 | Letter from Harry Eltringham, 8 Museum Road, Oxford, to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society | 29 October 1911 |
| MC/27/273 | Letter from [Edward Bagnall] Poulton, Wykeham House, Oxford, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 3 May 1912 |