Harry Eltringham


Harry Eltringham FRS was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
He had been awarded a Master of Science and a Doctor of Science.
He worked at the Hope Department of Entomology. He wrote Histological and Illustrative Methods for Entomologists, The Senses of Insects, London, Methuen and on Lepidoptera Nymphalidae: Subfamily Acraeinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 11:1-65 with Karl Jordan and On specific and mimetic relationships in the genus Heliconius.
Eltringham was the author of a photograph of Edward Bagnall Poulton taken through the compound eye of a glowworm.
He was an elected a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and in May, 1930 the Royal Society.