Carpintero

1920 · ref. S57966 — London: T. Fisher Unwin 1920. xxiv 333 1 32-ads 2 col plates 87 b/w photos charts folding map. . HB. 8vo orig. cloth gilt title and vignette to spine blind-stamped title and tse-tse fly design to front board; corners slightly bumped fore- and bottom page edges uncut. Very good. From the library of British dipterist D.J. Greathead 1931-2006 with his name to endpaper. First edition. Two chromolithographic plates of mimetic butterflies by E.C. Knight. An engaging early-20th-century natural history narrative Carpenter�s work records his observations of the flora fauna and ecological conditions of the Lake Victoria region made whilst undertaking research on the bionomics of the Tse-tse fly Glossina palpalis in Uganda for the London School of Tropical Medicine. Blending scientific insight with travel writing it offers an important contemporary account of East African biodiversity and one of the period�s most accessible studies of the lake�s environment and its biological communities. Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter 1882-1953 was a British entomologist and medical doctor. He worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in Uganda on tse-tse flies and sleeping sickness. His main work in entomology was on mimicry in butterflies an interest he developed while in Africa. He succeeded E.B. Poulton as Hope Professor of Zoology at Oxford University from 1933 to 1948. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover