Arthur Gardiner Butler
English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist (1844–1925)
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Arthur Gardiner Butler F.L.S., F.Z.S. (27 June 1844 – 28 May 1925) was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist. He worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects, and spiders.
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| Born | 27 June 1844 |
| Died | 28 May 1925 (aged 80) |
Biography
Arthur Gardiner Butler was born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London.[1][2] He was the son of Thomas Butler (1809–1908), assistant-secretary to the British Museum.[2][3] He was educated at St. Paul's School,[4] later receiving a year's tuition in drawing at the Art School of South Kensington.[1]
At the British Museum, he was appointed as an officer with two roles, as an assistant-keeper in zoology and as an assistant-librarian in 1879.[5] He retired in 1901 and devoted his later life to his garden and cagebirds.[2]
Butler published many works on butterflies and moths, but Reginald Innes Pocock described these as merely "useful".[2] He also published articles on spiders of Australia, the Galápagos, Madagascar, and other places. In 1859, he described the Deana moth.[6]
Selected works
Entomology
- "Monograph of the species of Charaxes, a genus of diurnal Lepidoptera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865:622–639 (1866)
- Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridae in the Collection of the British Museum (1868)
- Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera Described by Fabricius in the Collection of the British Museum (1870)
- Lepidoptera Exotica, or, Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera (1869–1874)
- A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma, with descriptions of new species (1873)
- Tropical Butterflies and Moths (1873)
- Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand (1874)
- The butterflies of Malacca (1879).
- "Catalogue of the Butterflies of New Zealand" (1880)
- With Herbert Druce (1846–1913), "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica". Cistula entomologica, 1: 95–118 (1872).
- "On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Southern Africa, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species" Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16 (96): 394–420 (1875)
- "Descriptions of Some New Lepidoptera from Kilima-njaro" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 91–98 (1888)
- "On Two Collection of Lepidoptera Sent by H. H. Johnston, Esq., C.B., From British Central Africa" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 643–684, pl. 60 (1894)
- "Description of a New Species of Butterfly of the Genus Amauris Obtained by Mr. Scott Elliot in East Central Africa" Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 16 (91): 122–123 (1895)
- On Lepidoptera recently collected in British East Africa by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 722–742, pl. 42–43 (1896)
- "On Two Collections of Lepidoptera Made by Mr R. Crawshay in Nyasa-land" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1896: 817–850, pl. 41–42 (1897)
Ornithology
- Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, Order Passeres (1896–1897) illustrated by Frederick William Frohawk (1861–1946)
- Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary (1910)
- Foreign Finches in Captivity 2nd edition (1899)
- —— (1886). British Birds' Eggs: A Handbook of British Oölogy. London: E.W. Janson. OCLC 7255543 (all editions).
