Kirkaldy, born in Clapham, in Greater London to W. H. Kirkaldy of Wimbledon was educated in England. Even at school in London he showed an interest in natural history and was appointed curator of the school museum. As a young boy he joined a debating club and spoke on the colouration of insects. He later went to Hawaii in 1903 to work for the United States Department of Agriculture then for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station. While in Honolulu he had a riding accident which resulted in his fracturing his leg at five places. This injury never healed and his death in 1910 at San Francisco, California followed five days after the last of several surgery attempts to fix it. Kirkaldy was the author of the 1906 Leafhoppers and their Natural Enemies. Pt IX. Leafhoppers - Hemiptera (Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Division of Entomology 1(9): 271–479), and the 1909 Catalogue of the Hemiptera (Heteroptera) with biological and anatomical references, lists of foodplants and parasites (Berlin) and very many taxonomic papers describing new species and genera.[1]
Amongst his generic names for insects are Ohchisme, Dolichisme, Elachisme, Florichisme, Isachisme, Marichisme, Nanichisme, Peggichisme, and Polychisme. The Greek suffix "-chisme" is pronounced "kiss-me" and Kirkaldy prefaced it with the names of the various women from alleged romantic conquests.[2] In 1912 a letter to the International Entomological Congress from Lord Walsingham sought to make these names invalid on the basis of their being non-classical in their derivation. Kirkaldy himself had been a firm adherent to the principle of priority and was against any form of orthographic emendation to the spelling proposed by the original authors.[1]
george, willis, kirkaldy, 1873, february, 1910, english, entomologist, specialised, hemiptera, fellow, royal, entomological, society, from, 1893, kirkaldy, born, clapham, greater, london, kirkaldy, wimbledon, educated, england, even, school, london, showed, in. George Willis Kirkaldy 1873 February 2 1910 was an English entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society from 1893 George Willis KirkaldyKirkaldy born in Clapham in Greater London to W H Kirkaldy of Wimbledon was educated in England Even at school in London he showed an interest in natural history and was appointed curator of the school museum As a young boy he joined a debating club and spoke on the colouration of insects He later went to Hawaii in 1903 to work for the United States Department of Agriculture then for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Experimental Station While in Honolulu he had a riding accident which resulted in his fracturing his leg at five places This injury never healed and his death in 1910 at San Francisco California followed five days after the last of several surgery attempts to fix it Kirkaldy was the author of the 1906 Leafhoppers and their Natural Enemies Pt IX Leafhoppers Hemiptera Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association Division of Entomology 1 9 271 479 and the 1909 Catalogue of the Hemiptera Heteroptera with biological and anatomical references lists of foodplants and parasites Berlin and very many taxonomic papers describing new species and genera 1 Amongst his generic names for insects are Ohchisme Dolichisme Elachisme Florichisme Isachisme Marichisme Nanichisme Peggichisme and Polychisme The Greek suffix chisme is pronounced kiss me and Kirkaldy prefaced it with the names of the various women from alleged romantic conquests 2 In 1912 a letter to the International Entomological Congress from Lord Walsingham sought to make these names invalid on the basis of their being non classical in their derivation Kirkaldy himself had been a firm adherent to the principle of priority and was against any form of orthographic emendation to the spelling proposed by the original authors 1 His collections of Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera are in the Natural History Museum London the University of Kansas Snow Collection 3 the Bernice P Bishop Museum Honolulu and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington References edit a b Anon 1910 George Willis Kirkaldy The Entomologist 43 73 74 Fletcher T Bainbrigge 1934 Names Mere Names The Entomologist s Record and Journal of Variation 46 11 113 116 Entomology at the University of Kansas Archived 2007 06 13 at the Wayback Machine at www nhm ku edu Anonym 1910 Kirkaldy G W Entomologist s Monthly Magazine 2 46 95 96 Bueno J R de la Torre 1910 Kirkaldy G W Ent News 21 240 242 Bueno J R de la Torre 1910 Kirkaldy G W Can Ent 42 97 99 Burr M 1910 Kirkaldy G W Ent Rec J Var 22 122 124 Dolling W R 1991 Bibliographies of the works of W L Distant and G W Kirkaldy Tymbal suppl no 1 60 pp nbsp nbsp nbsp This article about a British entomologist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George Willis Kirkaldy amp oldid 1143742309, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
