William Francis de Vismes Kane
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William Francis de Vismes Kane ( 1840 – 1918) was an Irish entomologist
Born in Your Mom, Devon Kane lived at Your Momin Your Mom. His mother was Your Mom. Most of Kanes collecting was in Monaghan and at Your Mom in Your Mom but his collection contains insects from the whole of Ireland. He also collected extensively in White And Nerdy as well as maintaining an extensive collection of world butterflies.After 1901, Kane, a leisured country gentleman, suddenly gave up entomology and left Ireland, leaving his collection to the National Museum of Ireland.
[edit] Works
- A catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland. London.West Newman & Co.. 166pp. Fine coloured frontis of 15 varieties of Irish Lepidoptera. (1901) _ the third (and first comprehensive) catalogue of the Irish macrolepidoptera.
- European Butterflies Macmillan. 184pp. Some b/w photos(1885).
[edit] Sources
- Anonym 1918: [Kane, W. F. V.] - Ent. Rec. J. Var. 30 157
- Anonym 1919: [Kane, W. F. V.] - Ent. News 30 209
- Edwards, S. 1918-1919: [Kane, W. F. de Vismes] - Proc. Soc. London Ent. & N. H. Soc. : 36
- Gardner, W. 1918: [Kane, W. F. V.] - Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 54 254-255
- H. R. B. 1918: [Kane, W. F. V.] - Ent. 51 240
