George Herbert Carpenter

Who was George Herbert Carpenter?

George Herbert Carpenter was a British naturalist and entomologist, born in the Peckham district of southeast London in 1865, and died in Belfast on 22 January 1939. His main interests were in the study of insects and arachnids, zoogeography, and economic zoology. In addition to numerous contributions to scientific journals and Encyclopædia Britannica, he authored five books:

Insects: Their Structure & Life, A Primer of Entomology. London: J. M. Dent, 1899.

Catalogue of the Fishes of New York. New York State Museum Bulletin No. 60; Zoology, No. 9. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1903.

The Life-story of Insects. Cambridge: University press, and G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913.

Insect Transformation. London: Methuen, 1921.

The Biology of Insects. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.