Philip Crowley (1837 in Alton – 1900 in Croydon) was an English naturalist and entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.
He was a Quaker and a partner in a brewing business.
He was a fellow of the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society of London and the Entomological Society of London.
His extensive collections of Lepidoptera and bird eggs are in the Natural History Museum, London. His extensive oology collection was at the time (1901) regarded as one of the "most valuable donations to the museum".[1][2]
He named several taxa.
Crowley's tiger, a nymphalid butterfly, was named to honour him.
References
edit- ^ Albert Günther (1912). The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum: Appendix. General history of the Department of Zoology from 1856 to 1895. Vol. 2. London: order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1906. p. 333. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ Philip Crowley (1883). A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Philip Crowley. Surrey, England: Wadden House. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- Anonym 1901 [Crowley, P.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3) 37
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