Person PX7306 Edelsten; Hubert McDonald (1877-1959); Lepidopterist Edelsten Hubert McDonald 1877-1959 Lepidopterist Male

During the First World War served in the Royal Naval Air Ambulance Service. After the War became Secretary to the Committee for the Protection of British Insects. In 1939 joined the Ministry of Agriculture and was concerned with the entomology of food crops. This work included the study of the Colorado Beetle. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London and an Associate in charge of British Lepidoptera at The Natural History Museum. Contributed hundreds of notes and articles to The Entomologist. Publications included an account of the Lepidoptera of Cambridgeshire (with John Fryer) in the Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, Vol.1. (1938) and a revision of Richard South's The Moths of the British Isles (1939). International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Lesp 17/11/2005 Lesp 07/02/2006 d75d63a1-647b-447e-8205-4dd2e04e7d4a