Henry John Elwes.
English botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller (1846-1922)
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About Henry John Elwes
Henry John Elwes, FRS was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalaya and Korea. He was one of the first group of 60 people to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. Author of Monograph of the Genus Lilium (1880), and The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland (1906–1913) with Augustine Henry, as well as numerous articles, he left a collection of 30,000 butterfly specimens to the Natural History Museum, including 11,370 specimens of Palaearctic butterflies.
Everything about Henry John Elwes →- Occupation
- botanist, entomologist, lepidopterist, ornithologist
- Position held
- President of the British Ornithological Union, President of the Royal Entomological Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
- Born
- May 16, 1846, 1846
- Died
- November 26, 1922