It is "Gillette's Checkerspot"

[Cris Guppy or Aud Fischer]

Very good Ken!

I will check it out, and hopefully others will as well.

Cris.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenelm Philip" <fnkwp at aurora.alaska.edu>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: It is "Gillette's Checkerspot"


>
> > Upon checking in two bibliographies it is clear that Clarence P.
Gillette
> > (with an "e" at the end), is the correct spelling, not Gillett.
>
> In _Contributions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North
> America_ by Barnes & McDunnough, on the back side of the title page of all
> parts from Vol I, No. 1 (1911) through Vol IV, No. 2 (1918),
> is the following:
>
>                                 Published
>                            Under the Patronage
>                                    of
>                           MISS JESSIE D. GILLETT,
>                                Elkhart, Ill.
>
> It would appear that either Barnes or McDunnough felt very much indebted
> to Miss Gillett, at least from 1911 to 1918. There would appear to be a
> possibility that the species might have been named for Jessie Gillett.
> Does the O.D. state for whom the species was named? If not, what is the
> evidence that Clarence P. Gillette was the person being honored?
>
> Ken Philip
> fnkwp at uaf.edu
>
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