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3 unusual facts about Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter


Adelpha californica

It was treated generally as a species (though it included Adelpha eulalia as a synonym) until 1944, when the entomologists Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter and Bertram Maurice Hobby reclassified it as a subspecies of Adelpha bredowii.

Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter

Upon the outbreak of World War I, Carpenter was called to service in the British Army Medical Corps.

He then studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London, graduating MB ChB (the standard medical degree at the University of London) in 1908.



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