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Willie Horace Thomas Tams

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Willie Horace Thomas "Tiger" Tams (1891–1980)[1][2][3] was a British entomologist.

Biography

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Tams was an assistant to John Stanley Gardiner at the University of Cambridge and joined the board of the Linnean Society of London in 1913. During World War I he served in the Canadian army.[4] In 1920 he was appointed to the Natural History Museum in London as an assistant in the Entomology department. He took part in a voyage to the Gulf of Guinea (Percy Sladen and Godman Trusts expedition to the islands in the Gulf of Guinea) from October 1932 to March 1933.[5] He also traveled to Madeira and the Seychelles. Tams published more than 70 articles on the taxonomy of lepidoptera, including articles on the Lasiocampidae. He was a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, an associate of the Linnean Society of London and was assistant editor of the Entomologist's Gazette.

List of publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Natural History Museum Archive Catalogue". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  2. ^ Proceedings and Transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1981, p. 34.
  3. ^ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZS-9R5Q : 22 October 2021), Willie Horace T Tams, 1980.
  4. ^ "Willie Horace Thomas Tams :: CGWP Record Detail". Canadian Great War Project. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  5. ^ Ceríaco, Luis M. P. (17 October 2022). Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands: Science and Conservation. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-031-06153-0.
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