Biographical dictionary
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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORSFIELD, Dr | Sold (?) 271 Coleoptera from Java to the NHM in 1848 (1848/92). (MD 5/03) | ||
| HORT, F.A. | Published 'Saperda carcharias at Cambridge' in Ent., 23, 1890, p.262. (MD 5/03) | ||
| HORTON, J.J. | A dental surgeon who lived at Moseley and who is believed to have taken up entomology late in life. He was active in the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society and left his twelve drawer collection of British beetles to it. (Centenary History of the Society, 1958, p.37). (MD 5/03) | ||
| HOSE, c. | A Doctor. Smith (1986) p.128 records that he gave Coleoptera from the Celebes collected 1895-96, including mounts with two or more specimens, to the HDO in 1914. (MD 5/03) | ||
| HOUGHTON, C. | Published 'Sphaeridium scaraboides L.' in Ent News, 9, 1898, p.172. (MD 5/03) | ||
| HOUGHTON, William | 1829? - 1897 | Published several books and a number of articles on entomoloy some of which are on Coleoptera. These include 'The Great water beetle' Intell. Observ., 6, 1864, pp.147-154, and Sketches of British Insects: a Handbook for Beginners in the Study of Entomology, 1875, second edition 1892. (MD 5/03) | |
| HOWARD, John Anthony Cecil | b. 6 April 1925 | Forest entomologist who worked at Tabora, Tanganyika and had a particular interest in bark beetles. His parents lived in Liverpool. FRES 1958. (MD 5/03) | |
| HOWARTH, Elijah | Curator of Sheffield City Museum from 1876-1928 and presented to the Museum (in 1883) a collection of over 200 invertebrates (mostly moths and beetles) from Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Isle of Man and Cumbria, collected between 1880 and 1883. (Fenscore database). (MD 5/03) | ||
| HOWDEN, James C. | Published 'Capture of Coleoptera in Scotland' in Zool., 6, 1848, pp.2044-45. (MD 5/03) | ||
| HUDD, Alfred Edmund | 1845 - 7 October 1920 | Lepidopterist, but he did publish one article on Coleoptera: 'Dryops femorata near Bristol' in EMM, 7, 1871, p.227. Atty (1983,iii-iv) mentions that Hudd contributed to V.R. Perkins' list of Gloucestershire beetles and that he flourished as a coleopterist c.1865-1875) (MD 5/03, 8/17) |