Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson

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Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson, (Sept. 6, 1840 , Tipperary, Ireland; d. Sept. 15, 1890, Calcutta, India) was an Irish entomologist. Atkinson was a lawyer specialising in Indian Law on which he wrote several books. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862. He also published a Gazetteer of Northwestern India. He died from Bright's disease.

[edit] Works

  • 1888. Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 4. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 57: 118-184
  • 1889. Notes on Indian Rhynchota; Heteroptera. No. 5. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 58: 20-109
  • 1890. Catalogue of the Insecta. Order Rhynchota. Suborder Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Family Capsidae. J. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (Nat. Sci. Suppl.)58: 25-200

[edit] Collections

Heteroptera collection Natural History Museum BMNH and Dresden (via Staudinger & Otto Bang-Haas).

[edit] Source

Poggi and Conci (1996) for biographical information.

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