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Lepidopterists' Society

Lepidopterists' Society is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lepidopterists' Society rather than just read about it. In short: The Lepidopterists' Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera). Founded in 1947 and based in the United States, it has an international focus and membership.

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Reference excerpt

The Lepidopterists' Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera). Founded in 1947 and based in the United States, it has an international focus and membership.

Publications The society's main organ is the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, which has been published continuously since 1947. Back issues up and including 2009 are freely available and hosted by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. Subsequent issues are available via BioOne. Since 1959, the society has also published a quarterly newsletter, the News of the Lepidopterists' Society. All back issues of this, too, are available from the Peabody Museum. A series of occasional papers is called Memoirs:

Memoir 1. A Synonymic List of the Nearctic Rhophalocera. C. F. dos Passos, 1964 Memoir 2. A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. L. D. Miller and F. M. Brown, 1981. Memoir 3. Supplement to: A Catalogue/Checklist of the Butterflies of America North of Mexico. C. D. Ferris (ed.), 1989 Memoir 4. Foodplants of World Saturniidae. S. E. Stone, 1991 Memoir 5. Basic Techniques for Observing and Studying Moths and Butterflies. W. D. Winter, Jr., 2000 They are also available via the Peabody. Other publications include:

The Lepidopterists' Society Commemorative Volume 1945-1973. R. Kendall (compiler), 1977

Presidents The society's first president, in 1951, was James Halliday McDunnough of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science. The next year, he was succeeded by the German-British entomologist Karl Jordan, of the Zoological Museum, Tring, England. The president for 2018-2019 is Brian Scholtens.

Awards The society awards a Karl Jordan Medal, initiated in 1972, in honor of Jordan. The first recipient was Henri Stempffer. A full list of recipients is:

1973 (1973): Henri Stempfer 1974 (1974): Frederick Stehr 1977 (1977): Donald R. Davis 1979 (1979): John Frederick Gates Clarke 1980 (1980): Keith S. Brown Jr. 1982 (1982): Jerry A. Powell 1983 (1983): Elwood Curtin Zimmerman 1978 (1978): Pierre E.L. Viette 1984 (1984): David Francis Hardwick 1985 (1985): John Neville Eliot 1986 (1986): Frederick H. Rindge 1988 (1988): Niels Peder Kristensen 1989 (1989): Phillip R. Ackery and Richard I. Vane-Wright 1990 (1990): Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen 1995 (1995): Jeremy Daniel Holloway 1996 (1996): Ian Francis Bell Common 1997 (1997): Ronald Hodges 1999 (1999): Claude Lemaire 2000 (2000): Tosio Kumata 2002 (2002): Malcolm J. Scoble 2004 (2004): Eugene G. Munroe 2006 (2006): No award 2008 (2008): Gaden S. Robinson 2011 (2011): J. Donald Lafontaine 2013 (2013): James S. Miller 2015 (2015): Ted Edwards 2017 (2017): Philip James DeVries 2019 (2019): Marianne Horak The society also grants honorary life memberships, such as that conferred on Lincoln Brower.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lepidopterists' Society

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lepidopterists' Society ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lepidopterists' Society

In research: Lepidopterists' Society appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lepidopterists' Society in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lepidopterists' Society is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American organizations established in 1947, Entomological societies, Learned societies of the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lepidopterists' Society outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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