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Thomas Henry Allis

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Thomas Henry Allis
Bearded man in a suit, posed sitting at a table looking at a book
An image of Thomas Henry Allis in the archive of the Yorkshire Museum
Born(1817-01-15)15 January 1817
Died1 August 1870(1870-08-01) (aged 53)
York
OccupationEntomologist

Thomas Henry Allis (15 January 1817 – 1 August 1870) was a British entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.

Biography

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Allis was the son of Thomas Allis, a comparative anatomist at York. He attended Friend's School.

As an entomologist Allis was a member of the Entomological Society of London and the Entomological Society of Stettin.[1] He amassed a large collection of lepidoptera, which was donation by his father to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.[2] The collection contained 19,585 specimens of 1,873 species of butterfly and moth.[2] The collection is one of the largest biological collections in the Yorkshire Museum.[3] The collection was used as the basis of an exhibition at Shandy Hall in 2005 titled 'The Winged Skull and 8000 other moths'.[4] Allis had also donated specimens, in 1854, to the Entomological Society of London.[5]

A species of moth, Exaeretia allisella, is named after Allis.[1] He had caught the original specimens near Rotherham and Maryport and sent them to H.T. Stainton for his revision of the genus Exaeretia.[6]

Allis' grave is in the Friend's Burial Ground, York.[7]

Select publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Obituary: Thomas Henry Allis". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (76): 90–91. September 1870.
  2. ^ a b Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1870 (Report). Yorkshire Philosophical Society. February 1871.
  3. ^ Colin Simms (1968). "A List of Botanical and Zoological Collections at the Yorkshire Museum, York". The Naturalist (904): 85–89.
  4. ^ "Exhibitions: The Winged Skull and 8000 Other Moths". The Lawrence Sterne Trust. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Additions to the Collections". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3: xvi.
  6. ^ Stainton, H. T. (1849). "On the Species of Depressaria, a Genus of Tineidae, and the allied Genera Orthotaelia and Exaeretia". The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5: 151–173.
  7. ^ "Thomas Henry Allis". findagrave.com. Retrieved 24 November 2021.