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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = William Lucas
| name = Distant
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Distant,_William_Lucas.jpg
| birth_date = 1845
| death_date = 1922
| address = Post Office, Penang [1867]<br />1 Caledonian Terrace, Queen's Road, Hatcham [1872]<br />Streatham Cottag, Buccleuch Road, West Dulwich [1875]<br />1 Selston Villas, Derwent-grove, East Dulwich [1879]<br />1 Russell Hill Road, Caterham Junction, Surrey [1885]<br />'Box' 352, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa [1894]<br />4 Westbourne Terrace, Addiscombe, Surrey [1897]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1867.11.19
| elected_AI = 1872.11.05
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL local secretary for Penang Malacca <br />AI Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1898.02.22 resigned
| clubs =
| societies = Entomological Society of London<br />Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1877 Member<br />AI Council 1874 Director and Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1879 Vice President, Director and Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1880 Director and Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1881 Member<br />AI Council 1882 Member<br />AI Council 1883 Member<br />AI Council 1884 Member<br />AI Council 1885 Member<br />AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1892 Member<br />AI Council 1893 Member<br />AI Council 1894 Member<br />AI Council 1895 Member
=== House Notes ===
ASL proposed as local secretary 1867.11.05<br />AI proposed 1872.10.22<br />1898.02.22 Mr W.L. Distant’s resignation was much regretted by the Council, and the Secretary was requested to write to him to that effect, if he insisted on withdrawal<br /><br />Secy. Ent. Soc. Lon., Cor. Mem.<br />Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sciences<br /><br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 – 4 February 1922) was an English entomologist.<br />Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of a whaling captain Alexander Distant.[1] A whaling trip with his father in 1867 (he considered 5 August 1867 as the most eventful day in his life[1]) to the Malay Peninsula aroused his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana (1882–1886), a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Much of Distant's early life was spent working in a London tannery, and whilst thus employed he made two long visits to the Transvaal which resulted firstly in the publication of A Naturalist in the Transvaal (1892). The second visit, of some four years, gave him time to amass a large collection of insects, of which many were described in Insecta Transvaaliensia (1900–1911). In 1890 he married Edith Blanche de Rubain. In 1897 he succeeded James Edmund Harting as editor of The Zoologist.[1] From 1899 to 1920 he was employed by the Natural History Museum, describing many new species found in their collection, and devoting most of his time to the Rhynchota (true bugs).<br />His other works included Volume I of the Heteroptera and part of Volume I of the Homoptera of the Biologia Centrali-Americanum (1880–1900), and the Hemiptera volumes of The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma(1902–1918).<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
· Rhynchota :· The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma <br />· Insecta transvaaliensia : A contribution to the entomology of South Africa <br />· A naturalist in the Transvaal <br />· A monograph of oriental Cicadidae <br />· Rhopalocera Malayana: A description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula · online<br />· Hemiptera <br />· Biologia centrali-americana. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera <br />· Biologia centrali-americana <br />· Rhynchotal notes: Membracidae <br />· Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands <br />· A synonymic catalogue of Homoptera <br />· Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae <br />· Scientific results of the second Yarkand mission : based on the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka : Rhynchota<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
Distant's collection of 50,000 specimens was purchased by the Natural History Museum in 1920<br />
| first_name = William Lucas
| name = Distant
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Distant,_William_Lucas.jpg
| birth_date = 1845
| death_date = 1922
| address = Post Office, Penang [1867]<br />1 Caledonian Terrace, Queen's Road, Hatcham [1872]<br />Streatham Cottag, Buccleuch Road, West Dulwich [1875]<br />1 Selston Villas, Derwent-grove, East Dulwich [1879]<br />1 Russell Hill Road, Caterham Junction, Surrey [1885]<br />'Box' 352, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa [1894]<br />4 Westbourne Terrace, Addiscombe, Surrey [1897]
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1867.11.19
| elected_AI = 1872.11.05
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL local secretary for Penang Malacca <br />AI Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1898.02.22 resigned
| clubs =
| societies = Entomological Society of London<br />Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1877 Member<br />AI Council 1874 Director and Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1879 Vice President, Director and Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1880 Director and Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1881 Member<br />AI Council 1882 Member<br />AI Council 1883 Member<br />AI Council 1884 Member<br />AI Council 1885 Member<br />AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1892 Member<br />AI Council 1893 Member<br />AI Council 1894 Member<br />AI Council 1895 Member
=== House Notes ===
ASL proposed as local secretary 1867.11.05<br />AI proposed 1872.10.22<br />1898.02.22 Mr W.L. Distant’s resignation was much regretted by the Council, and the Secretary was requested to write to him to that effect, if he insisted on withdrawal<br /><br />Secy. Ent. Soc. Lon., Cor. Mem.<br />Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sciences<br /><br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 – 4 February 1922) was an English entomologist.<br />Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of a whaling captain Alexander Distant.[1] A whaling trip with his father in 1867 (he considered 5 August 1867 as the most eventful day in his life[1]) to the Malay Peninsula aroused his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana (1882–1886), a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Much of Distant's early life was spent working in a London tannery, and whilst thus employed he made two long visits to the Transvaal which resulted firstly in the publication of A Naturalist in the Transvaal (1892). The second visit, of some four years, gave him time to amass a large collection of insects, of which many were described in Insecta Transvaaliensia (1900–1911). In 1890 he married Edith Blanche de Rubain. In 1897 he succeeded James Edmund Harting as editor of The Zoologist.[1] From 1899 to 1920 he was employed by the Natural History Museum, describing many new species found in their collection, and devoting most of his time to the Rhynchota (true bugs).<br />His other works included Volume I of the Heteroptera and part of Volume I of the Homoptera of the Biologia Centrali-Americanum (1880–1900), and the Hemiptera volumes of The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma(1902–1918).<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
· Rhynchota :· The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma <br />· Insecta transvaaliensia : A contribution to the entomology of South Africa <br />· A naturalist in the Transvaal <br />· A monograph of oriental Cicadidae <br />· Rhopalocera Malayana: A description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula · online<br />· Hemiptera <br />· Biologia centrali-americana. Insecta. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera <br />· Biologia centrali-americana <br />· Rhynchotal notes: Membracidae <br />· Rhynchota from New Caledonia and the surrounding islands <br />· A synonymic catalogue of Homoptera <br />· Homoptera. Fam. Cicadidae <br />· Scientific results of the second Yarkand mission : based on the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka : Rhynchota<br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
Distant's collection of 50,000 specimens was purchased by the Natural History Museum in 1920<br />
