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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.

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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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