William Forsell Kirby

William Forsell Kirby ( born January 14, 1844 in Leicester, † November 20, 1912 in London ) was an English entomologist and folklorist.

As the son of the banker Samuel Kirby was born William F. Kirby, a private school education. He began at an early age to be interested in butterflies. As early as 1862 he published Manual of European Butterflies a small work on European butterflies.

In 1866 he married Johanna Maria Kappel, who died in 1893. He had a son.

From 1867 he worked as an assistant at the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society in 1871 and wrote the synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera (including supplementary volume in 1877 ), ie a list of the butterflies.

In 1879, he went after the death of Frederick Smith as an assistant at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, where he worked until his retirement in 1909. He published a number of directories, specifically about plants wasps, dragonflies, moths and Orthoptera, and other entomological works such as the Elementary Text -book of Entomology (1885 ). In 1899 he first described the Weta - type Libanasidus vittatus from South Africa.

In addition to his professional activities, Kirby dealt intensively with Nordic and Oriental folk poetry and translated many works into English, including the Kalevala in Finnish.

Works

  • Manual of European Butterflies, 1862
  • Ed Dimiryaht at Oriental Romance, and other Poems, 1867
  • Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 1871
  • European Butterflies and Moths (based on Karl Friedrich Wilhelm mountain butterfly book), 1878-1882
  • Four Gospels Explained by Their Writers ( translation from the French, by JB Roustaing ), 1881
  • List of Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae and Siricidae in the Collection of the British Museum, 1882
  • New Arabian Nights, 1882
  • Evolution and Natural Theology, 1883
  • The Hero of Esthonia ( from Estonian and German sources ), 1895
  • Bibliographical Notes on the 1001 Nights, 1885-1888
  • Textbook of Entomology, 1885
  • Synonymic Catalogue of Odonata or Dragonflies, 1890
  • Synonymic Catalogue of Heterocera ( Moths ): Sphinges and Bombyces, 1892
  • Handbook of Lepidoptera, 1894-1897
  • Marvels of Ant Life, 1898
  • Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera, 1904-1910
  • British Flowering Plants, 1906
  • Translation of the Kalevala, 1907
  • Mammals of the World, 1907
  • Entomologist
  • Folklorist
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1844
  • Died in 1912
  • Man
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