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RefNoLC/1941/06
LevelItem
TitleCarpenter, Geoffrey Douglas Hale
Date07 November 1936
DescriptionCertificate of Candidate for Election to the Fellowship
Suspended 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941
Lapsed 1941
CitationCarpenter, Geoffrey Douglas Hale (Oxford). D.M. (Oxon.). Hope Professor of Zoology (Entomology) in the University of Oxford. V.-P.L.S., 1935-36. Member of the Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission (1919-1914), published Nos. 12 (p.79), 14 (p.1) and 7 (p.1) of the Reports (1912-19); Specialist Officer for Sleeping Sickness in Uganda (1919-29), published in 'Bull. ent. Res. 13, 44 (1933), 15, 187 (1934). Distinguished for researches in Mimicry and Geographical Distribution of African insects. Among numerous publications special mention may be made of four upon the relations of the mimetic butterfly, 'Pseudacraea eurytus' to its models in Uganda (mainland and islands), Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 606 (1913), 84 (1920), 469 (1923), Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. , 10, 22 (19360, 22, of 'Experiments on the relative edibility of insects ' etc., Trans. end. Soc. Lond. 1 (1921) and 'The Rhopalocera of Abyssinia, a faunistic study' , Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond., 83, 313 (1935). Also two books - 'A Naturalist on Lake Victoria' Lond., 1920, and (with E B Ford), 'Mimicry', Lond., 1933.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: Edward B Poulton; Guy A K Marshall; Rothschild; H E Karl Jordon; A E Boycott; E S Goodrich; R I Pocock; Edward Heron-Allen
From General Knowledge: Harry Eltiringham; R C L Perkins
Extent1 sheet
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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