E. B. Pinniger | |
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| Born | 12 April 1913 St Pancras, London, England |
| Died | 18 August 2005(2005-08-18) (aged 92) Windsor and Maidenhead, England |
| Occupation | Recording engineer |
| Known for | First with Cynthia Longfield to identifyCoenagrion scitulum in Britain. |
Edward Bertram PinnigerFRES (12 April 1913 – 18 August 2005) was a British recording engineer and amateurentomologist. In 1946, he andCynthia Longfield of theNatural History Museum were the first to identifyCoenagrion scitulum (the dainty damselfly) in Britain.
His 1946 survey ofNeuroptera forThe London Naturalist, was reprinted asThe Neuroptera of the Home Counties. In it he identified 12 species of Neuroptera in central London.
He was a fellow of theRoyal Entomological Society and a member of the London Natural History Society (LNHS).
Edward Pinniger was born inSt Pancras, London, on 12 April 1913.[1] His mother's maiden name was Cook.[2] In 1940 he married Leonora Forth in York.[3]
Pinniger was a recording engineer atBritish Homophone when he supervised work on new recording techniques being developed byCecil E. Watts whose wife Agnes had unsuccessfully attempted to record the sound of grasshoppers on disc.[4] In 1952 he read a paper on "Processing and pressing of disk recordings" in Portsmouth. In 1971 he lectured on "Processing of gramophone records"[5] and in 1977 contributed a chapter on disc manufacture to John Borwick'sSound Recording Practice: A handbook (Oxford University Press, c. 1977) compiled for the Association of Professional Recording Studios.[6]
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A keen entomologist, Pinniger was a fellow of theRoyal Entomological Society[7] and a member of theLondon Natural History Society (LNHS).[8] In 1946, he published a survey ofNeuroptera for their journalThe London Naturalist which was reprinted asThe Neuroptera of the Home Counties. In it he identified 12 species of Neuroptera in central London but by 1981 five had yet to be found in Buckingham Palace garden, a reservoir of insect life in central London.[9]
A resident ofChingford,[7] on the border of Essex, he led LNHS expeditions in the county. On 21 July 1946, withCynthia Longfield of the Natural History Museum, he was searching dykes nearBenfleet in Essex forLestes dryas when they were the first to detectCoenagrion scitulum (the dainty damselfly) in Britain.[10] They first captured a male and then two females three quarters of a mile away.[10][11] The species was subsequently determined by Longfield at the Natural History Museum.[12]
Pinniger died in the district of Windsor and Maidenhead, England, on 18 August 2005.[1][13]