rośliny-i-grzyby: Harold Maxwell-Lefroy

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Harold Maxwell-Lefroy (20 January 1877 – 14 October 1925) was an English entomologist. He served as a professor of entomology at Imperial College London before moving to India where he took over the position of entomologist to the government of India from Lionel de Niceville. He was later made the first Imperial Entomologist to India. He worked in India for eight years, established entomological research at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa and left India after two of his children died from insect-borne diseases. He worked on applied entomology and initiated experiments on the use of chemicals to control insects. A formula he developed was utilized to save Westminster Hal…

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Francis "Frank" Milburn Howlett (5 January 1877 – 20 August 1920) was a British entomologist who served in India as Second Imperial Entomologist, a position which was later changed to the Imperial Pathological Entomologist in India. He specialized in insects (mainly Diptera - sandflies) and parasitic ticks of medical and veterinary importance. A major discovery by him was the attractant methyl eugenol and its effect on flies in the genus Bactrocera.

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Charles Thomas Bingham (16 April 1848 – 18 October 1908) was an Irish military officer and entomologist. Bingham was born in India of an old Irish family, and he was educated in Ireland. His military career began in India where he was a soldier in the Bombay Staff Corps and later with the Bengal Staff Corps. At first interested in ornithology he took up entomology from 1877 following a posting to Burma where he was also conservator of forests. On his retirement in 1894 he settled with his wife and two sons (his three daughters married in India) in London. Here he worked, unpaid, in the Insect Room of the Natural History Museum, organising and cataloguing the world collection of aculeate Hym…

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<i>Indian Insect Life</i> . A manual of the insects of the plains (Tropical India). By H. Maxwell-Lefroy, Entomologist, Imperial Department of Agriculture for India, and F. M. Howlett, 2d Entomologist, published under the authority of the Government of India,…