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CodePX2875
Dates1846-1910
Person NameMcArthur; Harry Neil (1846-1910)
SurnameMcArthur
ForenamesHarry Neil
ActivityProfessional collector, esp lepidoptera. Engaged by A H Meek 1880 to collect lepidoptera in the Shetlands. Also collected there 1881 and 1883. Outer Hebrides (Lewis) 1887. Collected in Kashmir & Malay peninsula 1888-89 for John Henry Leech. Shetlands again 1892. Co Cork, Ireland 1893. Orkneys 1895. Refused offer of job at Tring as butterfly setter (?) Oct 1895. Collected on Lewis 1901. Aviemore & Harris 1908. Added many new species to lists of lepidoptera for these areas.
May 1909 went into hospital with cancer.
RelationshipsSon of Niel [sic, obit in Entomologist] McArthur, collector in spare time of British lepidoptera
Catalogue
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DF/TM/1/14/17Correspondence M: MacDonnell; MacPherson; McArthur
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