George Talbot was an English

England

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 entomologist who specialised in butterflies.

Talbot was first employed by the wealthy amateur butterfly collector Herbert Adams, then by the insect dealer W.F.M.Rosenberg and then as curator

Curator

A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

 of Joicey's

James John Joicey

James John Joicey was an amateur entomologist who assembled a massive collection of Lepidoptera in a private museum called the Hill Museum....

 collection at the Hill Museum. He wrote several scientific papers with Joicey.
During the First World War he worked with Authur Bacot at the Lister Institute on trench fever

Trench fever

Trench fever is a moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice. It infected armies in Flanders, France, Poland, Galicia, Italy, Salonika, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt in World War I Trench fever (also known as "Five day fever", "Quintan fever" (febris Quintana in Latin), "Urban trench...

 and typhus

Typhus

Epidemic typhus is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters...

 diseases carried by lice

Body louse

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. After Joicey's death in 1932 he worked for the British Pest Infestation Division of the Ministry of Health

Department of Health (United Kingdom)

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George Talbot wrote over 150 papers many of them generic revisions in the Bulletin of the Hill Museum and his The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma series. His best known works are his monograph on Delias

Delias

Delias is a genus of butterflies. There are about 250 species of Delias, found in South Asia and Australia. Delias is considered to have its evolutionary origins in the Australian region.-Species:*The singhapura species-group...

 and the three Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 parts of Lepidopterum Catalogus published by Wilhelm Junk

Wilhelm Junk

Wilhelm Junk was a Czech natural history, bibliographer bookseller and entomologist.Wilhelm Junk established his book dealership "Antiquariaat Junk", in 1899 in Berlin. He soon became the leading dealer in works on natural history in Europe...

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Selected works

• A monograph of the pierine genus Delias.The first 5 parts were published by John Bale, Sons & Danielsson; the last part by the British Museum (Natural History
  Natural History Museum
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  . This work has seventy one plates.Fifteen are chromolithographs. John Bale were one of the last (? the last) firm of chromolithographers in London(1928–37).
• Pieridae in Lepidopterum Catalogus Junk.Full reference is ?
• The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis
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   , London.
• Butterflies. Vol. 1. Papilionidae, Pieridae xxix + 600 p 184 fig 1 folding map 3 col. pl. (1939).
• Butterflies. Vol. 2. Danaidae to Acraeidae
  Acraea (genus)
  Acraea is a genus of brush-footed butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae. It seems to be highly paraphyletic and has long been used as a "wastebin taxon" to unite about 220 species of anatomically conservative Acraeini...
  
   xv + 506 p 104 figs 2 col. pl. (1947)

with James John Joicey

James John Joicey

James John Joicey was an amateur entomologist who assembled a massive collection of Lepidoptera in a private museum called the Hill Museum....

• New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 64(1): 65-83 pls 3-6 (1916).
• New Heterocera from Dutch New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist (8)20: 50-87, pls 1-4 (1917).
• New Lepidoptera from Waigeu, Dutch New Guinea and Biak. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)20: 216-229 (1917)
• New forms of Indo-Australian butterflies. Bull. Hill Mus. 1(3): 565-569 (1924)
• New forms of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Encycl. Entomol. (B III Lepidoptera)2: 1-14 (1926)
• New forms of Rhopalocera in the Hill Museum. Bull. Hill Mus. 2(1): 19-27 (1928)