Evelyn Cheesman
1881-1969
English entomologist who collected South Pacific insects. Cheesman studied entomology because veterinary colleges refused to admit women. As the Regent's Park Zoo�...
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Evelyn Cheesman
Born in 1881, Westwell, Kent, England Died April 15, 1969, London, England
Remembering her childhood years, Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (who rarely used the name “Lucy”) describ...
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Evelyn Cheesman was principally an entomologist and incidentally an explorer. In her search for insects and her attempt to prove a theory concerning a land bridge between Asia and Australia, she trave...
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