Author:William Kirby (1759-1850)

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William Kirby
(1759–1850)

William Kirby

Works

• Monographia Apum Angliae (1802, two volumes) IA 1, IA 2
• Introduction to Entomology (1815-1826, four volumes, with William Spence) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4
• "A Century of Insects, including several new Genera described from his Cabinet" in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12 (1818), pp. 375–453
• "A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq." in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12 (1818), pp. 454–482
• Strictures on Sir James Smith's Hypothesis respecting the Lilies of the Field of our Saviour and the Acanthus of Virgil (1819)
• "A description of some coleopterous insects in the collection of the Rev. F.W. Hope, F.L.S." Zoological Journal 3: 520-525 (1828).
• Fauna boreali-americana 1829, (contributor)
• Seven Sermons on our Lords Temptations (1829).
• The History, Habits and Instincts of Animals (1835, two volumes). IA 1, IA 2

Works about Kirby

• "Kirby, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Kirby, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)