Charles Donovan

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Colonel Charles Donovan MD (1863-1951) was born in Calcutta. He studied at Queen' college, Cork and Trinity college, Dublin. He joined the Indian Medical Service and was stationed at Mandalay. He later became a professor of Biology at Madras University. He took an interest in the study of butterflies and birds. After retirement he wrote a Catalogue of the Macrolepidoptera of Ireland (1936).

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• Obituary. 1952. Irish Naturalist 10:258-259
• Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.