Tams, Willie Horace Thomas

Tams was an assistant to John Stanley Gardiner at the University of Cambridge and joined the board of the Linnean Society in 1913. During World War I he served in the Canadian army. In 1920 he was appointed to the Natural History Museum in London as an assistant in the Entomology department. He took part in a voyage to the Gulf of Guinea from October 1932 to March 1933. He also travelled to Madeira and the Seychelles. Tams published more than 20 articles on the taxonomy of lepidoptera, including articles on the Lasiocampidae. He was a member of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, an associate of the Linnean Society of London and was assistant editor of the Entomologist's Gazette