James John Joicey
British entomologist (1871-1932) · Died at 61
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Something wrong?James John Joicey FES was an English amateur entomologist, who assembled an extensive collection of Lepidoptera in his private research museum, called the Hill Museum, in Witley, Surrey. 5 million specimens.
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![New butterflies from Buru and New Guinea[1]: 592 (Joicey Collection). Top left: Troides prattorum. Top right: Charaxes madensis. Both were described by Talbot at The Hill to a reporter in 1932 shortly after Joicey's death.[35]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/BulletinHillMuseumPlate9.jpg/500px-BulletinHillMuseumPlate9.jpg)
New butterflies from Buru and New Guinea[1]: 592 (Joicey Collection). Top left: Troides prattorum. Top right: Charaxes madensis. Both were described by Talbot at The Hill to a reporter in 1932 shortly after Joicey's death.[35]
Butterflies from the Joicey collection in a contemporary cabinet at the Haslemere Educational Museum
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James John Joicey FES was an English amateur entomologist, who assembled an extensive collection of Lepidoptera in his private research museum, called the Hill Museum, in Witley, Surrey. His collection, 40 years in the making, was considered to have been the second largest in the world held privately and to have numbered over 1.5 million specimens. Joicey was a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Entomological Society, the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnean Society of London.
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