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675:(London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History)) (1953–1971), 5 volumes. Three additional companion volumes were published for the remaining families by Mardon in 1981; Traub, Rothschild, and Haddow in 1983; and Smit in 1987. The work required much original, descriptive work on insect tissues or, as Rothschild put it, "staring at the backsides of fleas" ("Dame Miriam Rothschild" in
138:. "The plan was somewhat vague: perhaps to control the insect vector, perhaps to do work on its biology. Anyhow, he had plenty of equipment, generous terms and complete independence; so that the vagueness of plan was probably what he would have wished. He chose his own assistant, G.H.E. Hopkins, a careful worker and a good naturalist, and together they spent two years in Samoa".
214:). To this end, between 1932 and 1945, he visited all districts collecting those rodents, living in association with humans, that were known to carry the fleas. These collections led Hopkins a stage further. He produced a comprehensive, authoritative review, which was never published, on the wild rodents of Uganda. Like Pitman, Hopkins made his contributions to the
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Taxonomy. All known publications on
Mallophaga, containing taxonomic information were reviewed and the species were placed in a modern classification. The result was that 201 genera and 2,657 species were considered valid. Included in the total number of species, subspecies were included; as they did
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C. Andresen
Hubbard described the end of Hopkins' career in dramatic terms: "One morning during the end of September 1967 Harry came to the siphonapteran laboratory of the Tring Museum as he had for some years, opened his files for volume 5 of the ‘Catalog,’ worked his laboratory day, went home and
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in
January 1952: 'In the excellent new stationery store , built last year, are shelved millions of forms and many Government reports, stacked on rat-proof steel shelving. Despite this, there was clear proof that a hungry rat had made a meal of some of H.M. Stationery. The main damage was done to a
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Ayrshire on the West coast of Scotland. Having completed his officer training, he was discharged from the cadet battalion on 24 January 1917 to take up a temporary commission in the South Lancashire Regiment and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, South Lancashire
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not separate species and subspecies in the list. The species names rejected totaled 776. Publication of this important paper marked the beginning of the new era in lice taxonomy, as it served as the new base from which further research could be undertaken" (K.C. Emerson, op. cit., p. 19).
688:"When Hopkins retired in Uganda and moved to England, he was not permitted to take all his assets with him, so I sent him CARE packages until the food situation in England improved and he could get the remainder of his assets out of Uganda" (K.C. Emerson, op.cit., p. 16).
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Hubbard, op. cit. F.G.A.M. Smit, however, recollected that "Harry reckons that he contracted viral pneumonia during a day coach trip in and around Basel, Switzerland, which was part of a holiday trip cruising the river Rhine up- and downstream (F.G.A.M. Smit,
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Hygiene and Sanitation. A Course of Study and a Reference Book for Sanitary Inspectors in the Tropics. With Notes on Communicable Diseases and their Prevention by J.P. Mitchell, C.B.E., M.D. and on Medical Entomology by G.H.E. Hopkins, O.B.E., M.A.
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never again returned. Two years previously Harry had spent his vacation in
Holland, contracted virus pneumonia there and was never again in the health which had been his joy through all his years." He was ultimately admitted to St. Paul's Hospital,
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England for Samoa on 15 November 1923. Buxton wrote, "I left England in November, 1923, taking with me, as my assistant, Mr. G.H.E. Hopkins, B.A., of Downing College, Cambridge. On our way through
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Hopkins was married in
October 1923 to Doris May Griffin, the daughter of William Jewkes Griffin and his wife, Ellen Forshaw (she was born in St Helens in Lancashire on 14 April 1897.) There were no surviving children of the marriage.
615:(London: British Museum), pp. viii + 250. Hopkins completed and signed the "Acknowledgements" at Kampala on 19 February 1936. A second edition of the book, with notes and addenda by P.F. Mattingly, was published in 1952.
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Hopkins made major contributions in scientific research into three groups of insects – lice, fleas and mosquitoes. He was regarded as a great scientist, with multidisciplinary training and experiences.
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Hopkins was liable for full-time military service. He accordingly enlisted a Private in the 4th Battalion, the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (
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Hopkins was said to possess all the qualities of an Englishman of the old school, who greatly enriched ecto-parasitic research with a wealth of ideas and sound, painstaking research.
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we were able to study the public health arrangements of the Canal Zone, especially the permanent works which are now undertaken to reduce the diseases carried by mosquitoes. We reached
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as Government Entomologist (Medical) in August 1929. Among his duties was responsibility for determining "the incidence of plague by ascertaining the distribution of fleas (
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donating 472 specimens, mainly rodents" (Delany). During the nineteen thirties Hopkins established himself in the Entomological Section of the Agricultural Laboratories in
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The Rothschild collection of fleas: the Ceratophyllidae: key to the genera and host relationships, with notes on their evolution, zoogeography and medical importance
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bundle of pamphlets by Mr. G.H.E. Hopkins, entitled "Rats, Fleas and Plague in Uganda"' (F.G.A.M. Smit, "Hubbard's Eulogy on Harry Hopkins", in
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Miriam Rothschild and Robert Traub, with John F. Haddow. 1983. Cambridge. xv, 288pp. Figures, 90 plates, maps including 151 distribution maps.
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we were most courteously assisted by Colonel H.C. Fisher, the Chief Health Officer, and his staff; during the passage of the ship through the
589:(undated typescript), 70 pp. Copies deposited in the Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe and the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi.
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In recognition of his considerable contribution to medical entomology in Uganda he was created an Officer of the Civil Division of the
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in Staffordshire on 22 March 1898, the son of the Rev. George Blagden Hopkins, curate of Hanley, and his wife, Hannah Fletcher Evans.
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for the Government Printer of Uganda. 52 pp. 2 folding maps, tables. "The following anecdote relating to the 1949 paper appeared in
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allowed Hopkins to pursue his interest in butterfly collecting. He sent a fellow-naturalist, Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier)
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Scholarly journal articles, papers and books continued to flow from his pen. He contributed "Notes on Medical Entomology" for
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near Fleetwood in Lancashire (1911–1916). He sat and passed the Oxford and Cambridge Higher School Certificate in July 1916.
529:"The Early Stages of Samoan Mosquitos", (vol. 15), pp. 295–301, and "Race Suicide in Stegomyia", (vol. 16), pp. 151–153.
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at Christmas time and made arrangements with the officials of the Ministry of Health for a laboratory assistant for the
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in Hertfordshire, and died, aged 74 years, in Hemel Hempstead on 20 February 1973. He bequeathed his collection of
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in Madras, which were considered new to science and were ultimately described as Sarangesa hopkinsi, Evans 1921.
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home to England he visited South Africa and spent some days with the staff of the Medical Ecological Centre in
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in October 1922. He graduated in 1923 as a Bachelor of Arts in medical entomology with specialisation in the
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we reached Apia in the middle of January, 1924." Hopkins recollected that they "visited all the islands of
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602:(vol. 40, no. 8) (December 1937). Karl Jordan, "Two New Fleas from Uganda in the British Museum", in
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in 1920. He continued to build his reputation as an entomologist, and was elected as a Fellow of the
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An Illustrated Catalogue of the Rothschild Collection of Fleas (Siphonaptera) in the British Museum
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which appeared in 1925. He returned to England in January 1926, and collaborated in the writing of
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of the Ethiopian Region. I. Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae
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710:(London, British Museum) (1952), 362 pp. This "was a historical milestone in
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Regiment (T.F.) on 25 January 1917. He was then posted to Park Hall Camp,
538:(London: School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (Memoir No. 1), pp. 260.
465:(vol. 28) (30 December 1921), p. 39. The butterfly is now referred to as
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The Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London
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Dr. Karl Jordan, F.R.S., "Some New African Siphonaptera" in
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V.B. Wigglesworth, "Patrick Alfred Buxton. 1892–1955", in
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585:(vol. 39, issue 1) (2012), pp. 27–38. G.H.E. Hopkins,
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A History of Applied Entomology: (Somewhat Anecdotal)
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hopkinsi Evans, 1921 – the Dakhan Spotted Small Flat.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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99:(skipper) he had caught during the cold season at
25:(22 March 1898 – 20 February 1973) was an English
463:The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
41:George Henry Evans Hopkins ("Harry") was born in
638:Supplement to The London Gazette of 12 June 1947
353:(lice) specimens to the Natural History Museum.
198:as an entomologist in the Medical Department in
48:He was educated at Upholland Grammar School in
572:(vol. 84) (The Smithsonian Institution, 1930).
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847:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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95:, D.S.O., R.E., some specimens of a small
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172:The Bulletin of Entomological Research
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280:(Mrs. George Lane) in bringing out
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862:People from Hanley, Staffordshire
857:People educated at Rossall School
587:The Known Wild Rodents of Uganda
270:British Museum (Natural History)
867:20th-century British zoologists
662:(vol. 82) (July 1971), p. 192).
158:laboratory. Travelling through
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481:(vol. XXXIV) (1922), p. 205.
583:Archives of Natural History
494:(vol. 2) (1956), pp. 69 ff.
251:Order of the British Empire
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342:in collaboration with Dr.
126:In the summer of 1923 Dr.
108:Downing College, Cambridge
20:George Henry Evans Hopkins
701:(1950), pp. xii + 357 pp.
479:The Entomologist's Record
370:to the St Albans Museum.
65:South Lancashire Regiment
61:Military Service Act 1916
771:Angewandte Parasitologie
606:(vol. 76) (1943), p. 32.
773:(Jg. 15, H. 4), p. 237.
559:(19 July 1927), p. 862.
547:Buxton, op. cit., p. 4.
837:English entomologists
651:East African Standard
503:P.A. Buxton, et al.,
310:Peromyscopsylla draco
272:, Zoological Museum,
128:Patrick Alfred Buxton
112:Entomological Society
600:Novitates Zoologicae
357:Retirement and death
322:Demeillonia miriamae
298:Xenopsylla philoxera
82:Indian Defence Force
16:English entomologist
316:Cratynius crypticus
304:Plocopsylla ulysses
93:William Harry Evans
660:Entomological News
626:Entomological News
467:Sarangesa purendra
655:The Uganda Herald
278:Miriam Rothschild
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712:Mallophaga
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407:References
373:The book,
290:West Leith
225:Mosquitoes
208:Xenopsylla
136:filariasis
116:Mallophaga
37:Early life
699:(Cantab.)
346:in 1952.
134:to study
97:Sarangesa
396:Portrait
240:En route
212:Yersinia
78:Oswestry
740:op. cit
220:Kampala
168:Tutuila
216:BM(NH)
204:Uganda
178:Ellice
144:Panama
89:Madras
50:Orrell
43:Hanley
288:" in
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264:Tring
200:Kenya
148:Canal
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122:Samoa
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