# Arthur Gardiner Butler > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arthur_Gardiner_Butler > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Arthur_Gardiner_Butler.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Gardiner_Butler > Source revision: 1354323441 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist (1844–1925) Arthur Gardiner Butler Born (1844-06-27)27 June 1844 Chelsea, London Died 28 May 1925(1925-05-28) (aged 80) Beckenham, Kent **Arthur Gardiner Butler** [F.L.S.](/source/Fellow_of_the_Linnean_Society), [F.Z.S.](/source/Fellow_of_the_Zoological_Society_of_London) (27 June 1844 – 28 May 1925) was an English [entomologist](/source/Entomologist), [arachnologist](/source/Arachnology) and [ornithologist](/source/Ornithology). He worked at the [British Museum](/source/British_Museum) on the [taxonomy](/source/Taxonomy_(biology)) of [birds](/source/Bird), [insects](/source/Insect), and [spiders](/source/Spider). ## Biography Arthur Gardiner Butler was born at [Cheyne Walk](/source/Cheyne_Walk), [Chelsea, London](/source/Chelsea%2C_London).[1][2] He was the son of Thomas Butler (1809–1908), assistant-secretary to the British Museum.[2][3] He was educated at [St. Paul's School](/source/St_Paul's_School%2C_London),[4] later receiving a year's tuition in drawing at the Art School of South Kensington.[1] At the British Museum, he was appointed as an officer with two roles, as an assistant-keeper in [zoology](/source/Zoology) and as an assistant-librarian in 1879.[5] He retired in 1901 and devoted his later life to his garden and cagebirds.[2] Butler published many works on butterflies and moths, but [Reginald Innes Pocock](/source/Reginald_Innes_Pocock) described these as merely "useful".[2] He also published articles on spiders of [Australia](/source/Australia), the [Galápagos](/source/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Islands), [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar), and other places. In 1859, he described the *[Deana](/source/Deana)* moth.[6] ## Selected works English [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) has original works by or about: **[Arthur Gardiner Butler](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Author:Arthur_Gardiner_Butler)** ### Entomology See also: [Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Taxa_named_by_Arthur_Gardiner_Butler) - "Monograph of the species of *[Charaxes](/source/Charaxes)*, a genus of diurnal Lepidoptera". *Proceedings of the [Zoological Society of London](/source/Zoological_Society_of_London)* 1865:622–639 (1866) - *Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridae in the Collection of the British Museum* (1868) - *Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera Described by Fabricius in the Collection of the British Museum* (1870) - *Lepidoptera Exotica, or, Descriptions and Illustrations of Exotic Lepidoptera* (1869–1874) - *A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma, with descriptions of new species* (1873) - *Tropical Butterflies and Moths* (1873) - *Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Zealand* (1874) - *The butterflies of Malacca* (1879). - "Catalogue of the Butterflies of New Zealand" (1880) - With [Herbert Druce](/source/Herbert_Druce) (1846–1913), "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica". *Cistula entomologica*, 1: 95–118 (1872). - "On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Southern Africa, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species" *Annals and Magazine of Natural History* (4) 16 (96): 394–420 (1875) - "Descriptions of Some New Lepidoptera from Kilima-njaro" *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London* 1888: 91–98 (1888) - "On Two Collection of Lepidoptera Sent by H. H. Johnston, Esq., C.B., From British Central Africa" *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London* 1893: 643–684, pl. 60 (1894) - "Description of a New Species of Butterfly of the Genus *Amauris* Obtained by Mr. Scott Elliot in East Central Africa" *Annals and Magazine of Natural History* (6) 16 (91): 122–123 (1895) - On Lepidoptera recently collected in British East Africa by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London* 1895: 722–742, pl. 42–43 (1896) - "On Two Collections of Lepidoptera Made by Mr R. Crawshay in Nyasa-land" *Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London* 1896: 817–850, pl. 41–42 (1897) ### Ornithology - *Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary, Order Passeres* (1896–1897) illustrated by [Frederick William Frohawk](/source/Frederick_William_Frohawk) (1861–1946) - [*Foreign Birds for Cage and Aviary*](http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006599904) (1910) - [*Foreign Finches in Captivity*](https://books.google.com/books?id=fLg3AQAAMAAJ) 2nd edition (1899) - —— (1886). [*British Birds' Eggs: A Handbook of British Oölogy*](https://archive.org/details/cu31924000181226). London: E.W. Janson. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [7255543 (all editions)](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7255543/editions). ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMullensSwann1917111_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMullensSwann1917111_1-1) [Mullens & Swann (1917)](#CITEREFMullensSwann1917), p. 111. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Pocock_1926_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Pocock_1926_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Pocock_1926_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Pocock_1926_2-3) Pocock, R. I. (1926). "Obituary Notices: Dr. Arthur Gardiner Butler". *Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London*. **138** (1): 75–76. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1111/j.1095-8312.1926.tb01372.x](https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1095-8312.1926.tb01372.x). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-thomas_3-0)** Thomas Butler: ["record on Thomas Butler"](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/CalmView/record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=PX8311). Natural History Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2019. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-pauline_4-0)** He was admitted 15-03-1854, according to: Gardiner, R. B.; St. Paul's School (London, England) (1884). [*The Admission registers of St. Paul's School from 1748 to 1876, edited, with biographical notices and notes on the earlier masters and scholars of the school, from the time of its foundation*](https://archive.org/details/admissionregist00stpa/page/n355). London: George Bell and Sons. p. 329. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [220315629 (all editions)](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220315629/editions). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Trustees of the Museum (10 December 1898). [*Statutes and Rules for the British Museum*](https://archive.org/details/statutesrulesfor00brit_3?q=Arthur+Gardiner+Butler). London: Woodfall and Kinder. pp. 42, 48 – via Internet Archive (Biodiversity Heritage Library). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Dennis P. Gordon (2009–2012). *New Zealand inventory of biodiversity*. Christchurch, N.Z.: Canterbury University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-877257-72-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-877257-72-8). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [340800193](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/340800193). ## Sources - Mullens, William Herbert; [Swann, Harry Kirke](/source/Harry_Kirke_Swann) (1917). [*Bibliography of British ornithology from the earliest times to the end of 1912, including biographical accounts of the principal writers and bibliographies of their published works*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/title/118983). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [820085516 (all editions)](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820085516/editions). (p. [111](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50921055)–112) ## External links [Wikispecies](/source/Wikispecies) has information related to ***[Arthur Gardiner Butler](https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Arthur_Gardiner_Butler)***. - [Some biblio/biographical information](https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~rider/Pentatomoidea/Biographical/biographical_B.htm#ButlerA) on Butler on the website of [North Dakota State University](/source/North_Dakota_State_University) (NDSU) - [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A(Arthur+Gardiner+Butler)) has digital copies of several works by Gardiner Butler. 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