Author:William Forsell Kirby

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William Forsell Kirby
(1844–1912)

William Forsell Kirby

Works

• Introduction to Entomology
• "Notes on the Geographical Distribution of Animals" in Littell's Living Age, 134 (1729) (1877)
• "The Forbidden Doors of the Thousand and One Nights" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 5 (1887)
• Lydekker, R; Bowdler Sharpe, R.; Kirby, F.; Garstang, W.; Woodward, B.B.; Bather, F.A.; Kirkpatrick, R.; Pocock, R.I.; Bernard, M.H. (1897). Alfred H. Miles, ed. Natural History. London: Hutchinson & Co.  also titled The Concise Knowledge Natural History (external scan) (also published in New York : D. Appleton & Cy., Concise Knowledge Library (external scan))
• British Flowering Plants (1906) (transcription project)

Butterflies and Moths

• Kirby, William Forsell, A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera.  in five volumes:
  • Butterflies (Part.1), vol. 1, 1896.  (external scan)
  • Butterflies (Part.2), vol. 2, 1896.  (external scan)
  • Moths (Part.1), vol. 3, 1897.  (external scan)
  • Moths (Part.2), vol. 4, 1897.  (external scan)
  • Moths (Part.3), vol. 5, 1897.  (external scan)
• —— (1903). The Butterflies and Moths of Europe. London etc.: Cassell & Co., Ltd.  (HathiTrust)

Contributions to Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute

• Notes on the Cicadidæ of New Zealand (1895)

Translations

• Kalevala, the Land of Heroes, 2 vols. (1907)

Works about Kirby

• 1897: review of A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera, vol 4, in The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 1, issue 671 (May, 1897), p. 239–240
• 1902: short announcement of (the first seven parts of) Kirby 1903, in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 6, issue 734 (August, 1902), p. 318 (section 'Notes and Queries')