George Wheeler (entomologist)
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George Wheeler was an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

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The Reverend George Wheeler M.A. wrote Butterflies of Switzerland (1935), and completed Volume 11 of British Lepidoptera by James William Tutt, after the Tutt's death in 1911. He was an avid collector, especially of "varieties" of Lepidoptera.
George Wheeler was a Fellow
Fellow
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 of the Entomological Society of London, sometime elected Secretary and Vice-President.In 1933 he was honoured as a Special Life Fellow.He was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
Zoological Society of London
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