Peter Cameron (entomologist)

Peter Cameron (1847 – 1 December 1912 in New Mills, Derbyshire) was an English amateur entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

[citation needed] He described many new species; his collection, including type material,[1] is now in the Natural History Museum.

[citation needed] He loaned specimens to Jean-Jacques Kieffer,[1] a teacher and Catholic priest in Bitche, Lorraine, who also named species after Cameron.

Upon his death Claude Morley wrote, "Peter Cameron is dead, as was announced by most of the halfpenny papers on December 4th.

Of the hundred or so names Cameron proposed within the group, almost all, Bohart found, were invalid.