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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| HAUGHTON, James | Published 'On the Coleoptera infesting granaries' in Natural History Review, 1855, pp.14-15. Is this perhaps the same J. Haughton mentioned by Johnson and Halbert (1902) p.143? (MD 3/03) | ||
| HAUGHTON, W. | Ryan, et al. (1984) p.68 notice that the Irish Naturalist, 5, 1896, p.245 records Haughton as exhibiting a specimen of Tribolium ferrugineum. | ||
| HAVERFIELD, T.T. | A Reverend. Mentioned by Stephens (1828) pp.9,14. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HAWARD, Alfred | d.1870 | Published several notes on Coleoptera in the Zool. 'Cossonus linearis' (16, 1858, p.6150); 'Carabidae in the Isle of Sheppey', (16, 1858, pp.6251-6252); 'Emus hirtus in the Isle of Sheppey' (17, 1859, p.6737); and 'Occurrence of Ammoecius brevis at Southport and notes on other Coleoptera' (19, 1861, pp.7367-7368). There is a short obituary in EMM, 7, 1870, p.66, which mentions that he was 'well known amongst Coleopterists, and universally respected for his genial and thoroughly unassuming disposition. He died at his residence, near Croydon, about a fortnight after joining the Entomological Club on the 1 July last, at their excursion to Weybridge... Mr Haward's business occupations always prevented him giving full scope to his bent for entomology...'. (MD 3/03) | |
| HAWES, Mrs | Presented various insects including Saperda from N. India to the NHM in 1856 (1856/8). (MD 3/03) | ||
| HAWKES, Onera A. Merritt | Published several important articles on Ladybirds in the 1920s including 'Hibernation of Coccinellidae on Mountains', EMM, 59, 1923, pp.53-55; 'Coccinella 10-punctata a tromorphic ladybird', ibid., 63, 1927, pp.203-208; and 'The distribution of the ladybird Adalia bipunctata', ibid., pp.262-266. She lived at 405 Hagley Road, Birmingham. FRES. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HAWKESWORTH, Leonard | Published 'Pyrochroa serraticornis near Ripley' in Naturalist Lond., 1896, p.210. (MD 3/03) | ||
| HAWKINS, Charles N. | d. March 1970 | Primarily a Lepidopterist but H.E.Hinton in a short obituary in Proc. RESL, 35 (C), 1970, 53, mentions that he also interested himself in Coleoptera and implies that he published on them in the Society's journals and elsewhere between 1925 and 1926. In fact Hawkins’ first publication on Coleoptera, as far as I am aware, was to introduce Atheta brisouti to the British list in Ent., 81, 1949, p.53. The only other article he wrote on beetles was on Anthicidae from the High Simien district of northern Ethiopia in Journal LSL, Zoo., 43, 1956, 109-110. His other ten or so publications all appear to be on Lepidoptera. Duff (1993), 7, records that Hawkins ‘visited Somerset regularly between 1944 and 1952, especially at the coast where he found many rarities. He started to compile a Somerset Coleoptera list including the results of extensive literature and museum searches but later passed all of his information to W.A.Wilson to help with the compilation of The Coleoptera of Somerset (1958)’ Hawkins and his wife were friendly with K.G.Blair and his wife (Hawkins wrote Blair’s obituary in EMM, 89, 1953, 25-27) and stayed with the Blairs on the Isle of Wight in their house overlooking Freshwater Marsh, in 1945, 1947 and annually between 1949-52. John Stafford, of the Isle of Wight Biological Records Centre, tells me that ‘each time he sent a list of the coleoptera he found to Dr Blair... the lists include a few brief annotations by Blair (eg. ‘new to me’)... one of the lists is on headed (but crossed-out) notepaper of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society. Hawkins’ lists are now in my possession'. Hawkins bequeathed four store boxes of Coleoptera, collected between 1944-1951, to the Somerset County Museum, Taunton, together with a meticulously kept card index which formed the basis for the Somerset list mentioned above. K.C.Lewis tells me that he also has specimens and there is a small box file of correspondence in the BENHS library at Dinton Pastures. FRES from 1927. Council 1938-1940. (MD 3/03, 1/22) |
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| HAWKINS, Mr | A Lieutenant Colonel in the army who gave more than 110 Coleoptera from Vancouver Island to the NHM in 1860 (1860/13). (MD 3/03) | ||
| HAWORTH, Adrian Hardy | 1767 - 24 August 1833 | Famous Botanist and Lepidopterist who also collected Coleoptera although little seems to be known about his activities in this respect. There is a mention in Stephens (1828) p.13, with regard to a specimen of Polistichus fasciolatus which he records as 'in the collection of my friend A.H.Haworth ... taken by Rev. S. Bale'. Marsham (1802) also mentions him as a friend (p.xxiii). The Strepsipteron Stylops haworthii was named after him by Stephens and there is an interesting account of the sale of the unique specimen, which Haworth retained in his cabinet, in Chalmers-Hunt (1976) p.6.Smith (1986) includes two interesting refences to Haworth's beetle collections. She records(p.37) that in June 1823 Westwood noted in his diary calling on Haworth 'when he showed me his Coleoptera and prm'd to give me some', and that in October of the same year WEestwood had completed a ms catalogue of Haworth's Coleoptera(presumably that now in the HDO). She also notes (p.124) that the Departmental Report of 1910 also mentions British Staphylinidae bearing Haworth labels',. Chalmers-Hunt also refers to the sale of Haworth's other collections which included some 40,000 insects of all orders half of which were Lepidoptera. The sale took place over two weeks between 23 June and 4 July, 1834 at Stevens' rooms and included 2306 lots. Many exotic insects were included as is confirmed by a note in Eric Gowing-Scopes copy of the sale catalogue 'The results of the sale much disappointed the [Haworth] family as I have heard at the time Exotic Insects were not bought and so fetched but little'. Haworth's superb library was also sold at auction in the same year. Haworth was involved in the foundation of the first Entomological Society and there is an interesting 'Review of the Rise and Progress of ...Entomology in Great Britain' by him in the Transactions, 1807. There is an account in DNB and Gilbert (1977) lists six other references. (MD 3/03) |