Thomas Henry Allis
Thomas Henry Allis | |
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 An image of Thomas Henry Allis in the archive of the Yorkshire Museum | |
| Born | 15 January 1817 |
| Died | 1 August 1870 (aged 53) York |
| Occupation | Entomologist |
Thomas Henry Allis (15 January 1817 – 1 August 1870) was a British entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.
Biography
[edit]Allis was the son of Thomas Allis, a comparative anatomist at York. He attended Friend's School.
As an entomologist Allis was a member of the Entomological Society of London and the Entomological Society of Stettin.[1] He amassed a large collection of lepidoptera, which was donation by his father to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.[2] The collection contained 19,585 specimens of 1,873 species of butterfly and moth.[2] The collection is one of the largest biological collections in the Yorkshire Museum.[3] The collection was used as the basis of an exhibition at Shandy Hall in 2005 titled 'The Winged Skull and 8000 other moths'.[4] Allis had also donated specimens, in 1854, to the Entomological Society of London.[5]
A species of moth, Exaeretia allisella, is named after Allis.[1] He had caught the original specimens near Rotherham and Maryport and sent them to H.T. Stainton for his revision of the genus Exaeretia.[6]
Allis' grave is in the Friend's Burial Ground, York.[7]
Select publications
[edit]- Allis, T.H. 1869. "Note on Xylina conformis", The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 5. 278
- Allis, T.H. 1870. "Lythria purpuraria, near York", The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 6. 238.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Obituary: Thomas Henry Allis". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (76): 90–91. September 1870.
- ^ a b Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1870 (Report). Yorkshire Philosophical Society. February 1871.
- ^ Colin Simms (1968). "A List of Botanical and Zoological Collections at the Yorkshire Museum, York". The Naturalist (904): 85–89.
- ^ "Exhibitions: The Winged Skull and 8000 Other Moths". The Lawrence Sterne Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
- ^ "Additions to the Collections". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: xvi.
- ^ Stainton, H. T. (1849). "On the Species of Depressaria, a Genus of Tineidae, and the allied Genera Orthotaelia and Exaeretia". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5: 151–173.
- ^ "Thomas Henry Allis". findagrave.com. Retrieved 24 November 2021.