Willie Horace Thomas Tams
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Willie Horace Thomas "Tiger" Tams (1891–1980)[1][2][3] was a British entomologist.
Biography
[edit]Tams was an assistant to John Stanley Gardiner at the University of Cambridge and joined the board of the Linnean Society of London in 1913. During World War I he served in the Canadian army.[4] In 1920 he was appointed to the Natural History Museum in London as an assistant in the Entomology department. He took part in a voyage to the Gulf of Guinea (Percy Sladen and Godman Trusts expedition to the islands in the Gulf of Guinea) from October 1932 to March 1933.[5] He also traveled to Madeira and the Seychelles. Tams published more than 70 articles on the taxonomy of lepidoptera, including articles on the Lasiocampidae. He was a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, an associate of the Linnean Society of London and was assistant editor of the Entomologist's Gazette.
List of publications
[edit]- Tams, W.H.T., 1924a. II. Notes on some species of the genus Cosmophila Boisd.. - Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. pp. 20–24, Plates I.-III.
- Tams, W.H.T., 1924b. List of the moths collected in Siam by E.J. Godfrey, B.Sc., F.E.S., with descriptions of new species. J. nat. Hist. Soc. Siam 6: 229–289.
- Tams, W.H.T., 1935. Lepidoptera: Heterocera (exclusive of Geometridae and the Microlepidoptera). Insects of Samoa and other Samoan terrestrial arthropods, Part III(4): 169-290
- Tams W.H.T., 1936. Three New East African Moths. - Journal of The East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society Cil.XIII: 105-106.
- Tams, W.H.T., 1953. A pest of coconut palms in Portuguese East Africa. - Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent., vol.3:69-73
References
[edit]- ^ "Natural History Museum Archive Catalogue". nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ Proceedings and Transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1981, p. 34.
- ^ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZS-9R5Q : 22 October 2021), Willie Horace T Tams, 1980.
- ^ "Willie Horace Thomas Tams :: CGWP Record Detail". Canadian Great War Project. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ Ceríaco, Luis M. P. (17 October 2022). Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands: Science and Conservation. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-031-06153-0.
External links
[edit]- www.nhm.ac.uk - Natural History Museum: Bibliographic record on W.H.T.Tams
- Works by or about Willie Horace Thomas Tams at the Internet Archive
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