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151:. Curzon was hugely energetic and supportive of government efforts to help agriculture. "Our real reform has been to endeavour for the first time to apply science on a large scale to the study and practice of Indian agriculture." he wrote in 1901. Curzon began in 1901 by elevating the Bombay director of agriculture to the new position of inspector-general of agriculture. Curzon also undertook the expansion of provincial research, linked to districts by experiment as well as demonstration farms. In 1901 he appointed an imperial 131: 70:
near Brighton. Leaving England for India in 1870, de Nicéville became a clerk in a government office (Calcutta Small Cause Court) but from at least 1881, devoted all of his spare time to entomology. He worked with most 'Indian' entomologists of the day but especially with
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He married Jane Sarah Webb, a widow, at St James' Church Calcutta on 21 September 1881. Their only child, Nora De Niceville, was born in Calcutta on 25 August 1882.
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and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka. He also studied the mantids of the Oriental region.
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1894 "On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region" J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (II) 63 (1): 1–59, pls. 1–5
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and De Niceville recorded about 631 species of butterflies found in Sikkim. Also included were butterflies found in
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in 1880. Other parts were given, in 1902 to the Indian Museum in Calcutta and to the Peter Redpath Museum in
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1898 "On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, Austro-Malayan and Australian Regions"
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1890. "The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon". Vol. 3. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 503 pp.
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1886. "The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon". Vol. 2. Repr. 1979, New Delhi, 332 pp.
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Correspondence on deputation and pay for Niceville. National Archives of India. 1881
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Part of de Nicéville's butterfly collection was given to the Asiatic Society,
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family, his father was a physician. He was educated at St. John's College at
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1892. "On new and little known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region",
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and an imperial entomologist; two years later, he appointed an imperial
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1900 "On new and little-known Lepidoptera from the Oriental region".
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and Bhutan, areas contiguous with Sikkim. In 1892 he proposed a new
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His name is sometimes spelled as "de Niceville", for instance in:
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Lionel died of malaria contracted while travelling in the
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Index

De Nicéville
Bristol
malaria
Indian Museum
Kolkata
butterflies
Indian Subcontinent
Huguenot
Hurstpierpoint
Henry John Elwes
Wood–Mason
Marshall
Sikkim
John Henry Leech
G. A Gammie
Darjeeling
Buxa
genus
skipper butterflies
Crossiura

Parnassius stoliczkanus
George Nathaniel Curzon
Viceroy of India
mycologist
agriculturalist
economic botanist
Mantodea
Zoological Society of London
Entomological Society

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