Arthur William Bacot

He appears to have had no formal training in science apart from being a member of the London Natural History Society.

He developed breeding experiments with the geometrid moth Acidalia virginaria (binomial name Scopula modicaria).

[3] Bacot was asked to do the research in his spare time with a small fee and all expenses paid.

[2] In 1914 during the First World War he went to Sierra Leone in British West Africa to study Yellow Fever.

[3] By autumn 1917 there was concern about the reduced efficiency of the British Expeditionary Force in France caused by trench fever.