Harry Eltringham
{{Short description|English histologist and entomologist}}
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Harry Eltringham FRS{{Cite journal | last1 = Carpenter | first1 = G. D. H. | author-link = Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter| title = Harry Eltringham. 1873-1941 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1942.0011 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 4 | issue = 11 | pages = 113–126 | year = 1942 }} (18 May 1873, South Shields – 26 November 1941, Stroud) was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.{{Cite journal | last1 = Carpenter | first1 = G. D. H. | title = Dr. H. Eltringham, F.R.S | doi = 10.1038/149072a0 | journal = Nature | volume = 149 | issue = 3768 | pages = 72 | year = 1942 | bibcode = 1942Natur.149...72C | doi-access = free }}
Life
He had been awarded a Master of Science (Cantab and Oxon) and a Doctor of Science (Oxon).
He worked at the Hope Department of Entomology. He wrote Histological and Illustrative Methods for Entomologists {{OCLC|03655743}}, The Senses of Insects, London, Methuen (1933) and on Lepidoptera Nymphalidae: Subfamily Acraeinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 11:1-65 with Karl Jordan (1913) and On specific and mimetic relationships in the genus Heliconius.Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1916: 101–148.
Eltringham was the author of a photograph of Edward Bagnall Poulton taken through the compound eye of a glowworm.
He was an elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (President 1931-32) Blair, K. G. 1941-1942 [Eltringham, H.] Proc. R. Ent. Soc. LondonLloyd, R. W. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 78 16.Riley, C. V. 1942 [Eltringham, H.] Entomologist 75 and in May 1930 the Royal Society.
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Category:English lepidopterists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society
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Category:People from South Shields
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