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James Petiver's 1717 Papilionum Britanniae: An Analysis of the First Comprehensive Account of British Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) (2020)

Vane-Wright, Richard I. (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 74
Issue: 2
Pages: 275-302

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2019.0014

URI: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0014

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Classification in biology Entomology Natural history Butterflies 18th century Great Britain Petiver, James

Although the contributions of James Petiver to the early development of systematic natural history are widely acknowledged, he is often criticized for scientific, curatorial and even social shortcomings. This rather dubious reputation is at odds with his standing among entomologists as ‘the father of British butterflies’. Shortly before his death in 1718, Petiver published a densely packed eight-page pamphlet entitled Papilionum Britanniae. Analysis of this work, which at first sight makes an apparently exaggerated claim of accounting for ‘above eighty English butterflies’, reveals that Petiver was an original, perceptive and truly systematic entomologist, in several important respects ahead of his time.

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Article Richard Coulton (2020) ‘What he hath gather'd together shall not be lost’: remembering James Petiver. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 189-211). unapi

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