Augustus Radcliffe Grote

Augustus Radcliffe Grote (7 February 1841 in Liverpool, England – 12 September 1903 in Hildesheim, Germany) was a British entomologist who worked mainly in America.

Augustus Radcliffe Grote
Born	7 February 1841 Liverpool, England
Died	12 September 1903 (1903-09-13) (aged 62) Hildesheim, Germany
Nationality	British
Scientific career
Fields	Entomology

Grote investigated, discovered and designated various butterflies and moths in North America, particularly in the US, Mexico and Cuba.

He became Director of the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim.

Grote was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London.

Works

• The effect of the glacial epoch upon the distribution of insects in North America, Salem, Mass., Printed at the Salem press, 1876
• Notes on the Sphingidæ of Cuba, Philadelphia, 1865
• Check list of the Noctuidae of America, north of Mexico ... I – II. Buffalo, N. Y., 1875–76.
• The New Infidelity; G.P. Putnam's; 1881; 101 pgs.
• with Coleman Townsend Robinson Descriptions of American Lepidoptera – Nos 1–3.Transactions of the American Entomological Society 1(1): 1–30; (2): 171–192, pl. 4; (4): 323–360, pl. 6, pl. 7 1867–1868

References

• Anonym, 1903 [Grote, A. R.] Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (3), London 39 :256.
• Essig, E. O., 1931 A History of Entomology. New York, Macmillan Company : VI+1-1029 639–640, Portrait
• Heppner, J. B., 1999 The Pioneer Century of American Entomology, by H. B. Weiss. Chapter VII-VIII. Lepidoptera news, Gainesville 1999 (3): 11–32.

External links

• Works by or about Augustus Radcliffe Grote at Internet Archive