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Gervase Frederick Mathew (11 February 1842 – 10 February 1928) was an English naval officer and entomologist. Gervase Mathew was born in Barnstaple and educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and Blundell's School He entered the Royal Navy as Assistant Clerk 12 December 1860, was promoted to Assistant Paymaster 15 February 1865, then to Paymaster 9 February 1879 and retired as Paymaster-in-Chief 11 February 1902. One of his early appointments was to the ''Warrior'', the first British ironclad. He was sometime based in the Mediterranean then at Sydney and in Fiji and travelled extensively in the central Pacific. He introduced Edward Meyrick to the fauna of the central Pacific islands. Gervase Mathew was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London the Zoological Society of London and the Linnean Society. His collection and Types were sold to Godman and are now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. His works include: * List of Lepidoptera forwarded to Edward Newman ''Entomologist'' 7(127):62-66 (1874) * Life history of Papilio archidamas ''Entomologist's monthly Magazine'' 14(163): 152-153 (1877) * List of Lepidoptera observed in the neighbourhood of Gallipoli Turkey, in 1878. ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' 18: 10-13, 29-32, 92- (1881) * Life history of Callidryas drya, Boisd ''Entomologist's monthly Magazine'' 18(214): 219-220 (1882) * Remarks on some Central American species of Pyrrhopyge, Hubn ''Entomologist's monthly Magazine'' 19(217): 18-19 (1882) * An afternoon among the butterflies of Thursday Island. ''Entomologist'' 19:33-36, 84-97 9 (1885) * Life history of three species of Western Pacific Rhopalocera.''Trans.Ent. Soc. Lond.'' 1885: 357-67, pl. X. (1885) *Descriptions of some new species of Rhopalocera from the Solomon Islands. ''Proc. zool. Soc. Lond''. 1886(3): 343-350, illustrations. * Life-histories of Rhopalocera from the Australian region, ''Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond''. (1888), pp. 137–188 (1888) * Notes on the Lepidoptera from the Mediterranean ''Entomologist, 31: 77-84, 108-116,. 141 (1898) * Descriptions and life-histories of new species of Rhopalocera from the Western Pacific ''Trans. ent. Soc. Lond''. 37(2): 311-315 (1889) * Butterflies attracted by human perspiration ''Entomologist'' 55(708):112-113 (1922) ==References== *Anon., 1928 ''Entomologists's Record and Journal of Variation'' Vol. XL. No. 1. 15 January 1928:47 () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gervase Frederick Mathew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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