Henry John Elwes
Henry John Elwes,
FRS (16 May 1846 – 26 November 1922) was a British
botanist,
entomologist, author,
lepidopterist,
collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of
lilies during trips to the
Himalaya and
Korea. He was one of the first group of 60 people to receive the
Victoria Medal of the
Royal Horticultural Society in 1897. Author of ''Monograph of the Genus Lilium'' (1880), and ''The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland'' (1906–1913) with
Augustine Henry, as well as numerous articles, he left a collection of 30,000
butterfly specimens to the
Natural History Museum, including 11,370 specimens of
Palaearctic butterflies.
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