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Harry Eltringham
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| Born | 18 May 1873 |
| Died | 26 November 1941 |
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Harry Eltringham FRS (18 May 1873, South Shields – 26 November 1941, Stroud) was a British histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
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 , 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.
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) and in May, 1930 the Royal Society.
