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Lived at 21 Montrose Avenue, Redland, Bristol 6 and had a particular interest in Coleoptera. (MD8/03) |
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| JACKSON, Dorothy Jean |
1893 - 13 July 1973 |
Lived for most of her life in Scotland and for many years in St. Andrews. She appears to have been attracted to entomology and particularly to the Coleoptera in her early twenties, and without any formal training, rapidly established a considerable reputation for her research. She published a large number of papers beginning with several on Sitona, eg. 'Bionomics of weevils of the genus Sitones injurious to leguminous crops in Britain' in Ann. appl. Biol., 7, 1921, pp.269-298. Other papers on this group dealt with the genetics of flight and flightlessness. She then turned her attention to aspects of flight in the Dytiscidae on which she published some 25 papers between 1950 and 1966. During the period 1960-65 she also published several papers on the biology of Hymenopterous egg-parasites (Eulophidae and Mymaridae) of Dytiscidae.Society's symposia. There is correspondence with C.J.Wainwright dated 1933-34, and a box of letters, etc. covering the period 1917 to 1972 in the RESL. Correspondents include G.W.R.Bartindale, F.D.Buck, and Frank Balfour-Browne (Pedersen (2002) p.84, includes a full list). In recognition of her contribution to entomology Jackson was elected Honorary FRES and she subsequently bequeathed £500, her four microscopes and large collection of separates to the Society. She is recorded to have very much enjoyed coming down to London to attend the Society's symposia. There is an obituary in Proc. RESL, C, 38, 1973-74, p. 57. (MD 8/03, 11/09) |
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| JACKSON, G.J. |
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Student at Bangor University who recorded beetles in the Bangor area between 1968 and 1977. Peter Hodge published a note on the Beetles-British Isles web site (21 November 2003) concerning some photocopies from a diary sent to him by Jonathan Cooter in the early 1980s which he believed may have been that of L.G.Cox. The entries concerned collections of beetles at Bexhill-on-Sea in 1967/68, Glasgow University grounds in 1967 and at Bangor on 19 October 1968, but it was subsequently suggested by John Bratton, after a comparison of the Bangor material with Joan Morgan’s records, that these referred to Jackson. (MD 1/07) |
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| JACKSON, Thomas Herbert Elliot |
1903 - 22 May 1968 |
Known as 'Pinkie'. Well known African Lepidopterist who also collected beetles. Born in England the son of Brig. General H.K.Jackson and educated at Wellington College and Harper Adams Agricultural College, Shropshire, before travelling to Kenya in 1923. Moved to India but in 1924 returned to Kenya where he spent the rest of his life. After learning to grow coffee and settling on a farm on the slopes of Mt. Elgon, Jackson joined the O.C.T.U. at the outbreak of war, subsequently reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. At the start of the Mau-Mau emergency he volunteered and served in a senior capacity in the Embu district. After the end of the emergency he returned to his farm and continued to improve and increase it until he was brutally murdered by a criminal gang. Jackson was a keen naturalist from his youth. The majority of the beetles collected by him were in his capacity as a member of the British Museum's Ruwenzori Expedition under F.W.Taylor and George Taylor in 1928. His important African Lepidoptera collection was split between the NHM and the Museum at Nairobi which also acquired his library. Smith (1986) pp. 80, 129, records that there are also vast collections of Lepidoptera in the HDO together with MS correspondence with R. Carpenter (1944-52).FRES from 1932. Gilbert (1977) p.186, lists five obituaries including Ent., 101, 1968, pp.191-192. (MD 8/03) |
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| JACOBY, Martin |
12 April 1842 - 24 December 1907 |
Not British being born in Altona, but included here because he spent all his professional life in this country after first arriving in Manchester with the Halle orchestra at the age of twenty one. Jacoby's interest in music - he subsequently became involved with the Royal Italian Opera and was a much respected violin tutor - ran parallel with his career in entomology. He married in 1869. Jacoby's enthusiasm for insects began at a young age and always concentrated on the Coleoptera, particulalrly the phytophagous beetles, on which he became recognised as the leading authority in this country, if not in Europe. His publications, which began with 'Description of new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera' in Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1876, pp.807-817, were numerous: well over 115 articles and books, most describing new genera and species from all over the world. The best known are probably his two volumes in Godman and Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana, (6 part I and Supplement part 1 , 1888-1892) and his volume on Chrysomelidae in the FBI series which was published in 1908 after his death. Jacoby appears to have made two collections of beetles one of which passed to M. van de Poll of Haarlem several years before his death (and the other to the NHM?). Insects collected by him are in the HDO (Smith (1986) p.129). These last include 19 specimens of Lepidoptera from Tasmania (1897), two specimens of Nyctelia from Patagonia (1898), syntypes of various species included in material from H.E. and F.W.Andrewes from India, Burma, etc. (1900) and Phytophaga from various localities (1906). Harvey et al (1996) list an alphabetical index to the 'J.S.Baly and M.Jacoby' collection. FES from 1886 and a regular attendant at meetings of this and the Entomological Club, where he played the violin. Gilbert (1977) lists seven obituary and other notices including EMM., 44, 1908, p.45 (by J.J.Walker) and Ent., 42, 1909, pp.32-35 (by G. Jacobson). This last includes a bibliography. (MD 8/03) |
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| JAMES, Trevor J. |
1947- 5 June 2020 |
The following is abstracted from a Report of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. Born in Kenton, Middlesex. Moved with his family to Cuffley when he was five years old. His interest in wildlife dated from secondary school years and by the time be became a student (studying English) at the University of York he was already a prominent contributor of bird and other records from Northaw Great Wood and beyond. What he regarded as a 'false start' into librarianship jobs in Ware, Bexleyheath and London led to a life-changing decision to apply for the job of Keeper of Natural History at Hitchin Museum. Actively involved in the (then) Hertfordshire & Middlesex Trust for Nature Conservation's work parties at Oughton Head Common he met fellow naturalist Chris(tine) Smith in 1977, whom he married two years later. Trevor's professional life progressed to appointment as Head of Ecology running the first Herts Environment Record Centre and an honorary role as first chairman of the National Federation (later Forum) for Biological Recording. With the Rev. Tom Gladwin and Graham White, he was instrumental in achieving the conversion of gravel pits at Great Amwell into an internationally important wetland reserve. His last employment move was to carry out pioneering work at Monks Wood Experimental Station near Huntingdon on use of the internet to create national biological recording schemes. He also worked as an occasional expert tour guide for the wildlife holiday company, NatureTrek. With Chris, Trevor was a revered organiser of the Herts branch of the British Naturalists Association and leader of legendary field trips for many years. He also served on the HNHS management committee and was a former Chair. His habitual modesty made it all the more pleasing for friends and admirers when he received the Society's prestigious 1875 Award for an outstanding Hertfordshire naturalist in 2015, followed by the National Biodiversity Network's Gilbert White Award in 2018 for an outstanding contribution to biological recording. He actively promoted 'citizen science' through his own volunteering and the generous practical help and encouragement he offered so that less experienced enthusiasts could develop their skills. Trevor's contribution, not least as county recorder for both plants and beetles for more than 40 years, was immense. His contribution to national wildlife recording was no less impressive. His publications included two landmark achievements: Flora of Hertfordshire (2009) and Beetles of Hertfordshire (2018). The former, which covers almost 2,000 species then recorded and the latter which includes 2,483 species, raised the bar for information and standards of presentation in county-level publications. In his last months he wrote a short book of memoirs, Chance encounters ? following nature's lead, which returned from the printers only eight days before his death, but at a time when he was still able to appreciate the finished article. Trevor's book on beetles was all the more remarkable for being published at a time when he had been diagnosed with cancer for several years and had undergone radical and debilitating surgery. He not only went on to update his book with new records. In 2020 New Year Honours, he was given the British Empire Medal for services to nature conservation in Hertfordshire an award which he received in person from the county's Lord Lieutenant in March despite encroaching sickness. There is a tribute on the NBN website. Hertforshire Beetles includes extensive information about James' own collecting and record keeping, and about his associates and includes photographs. (MD 8/20,1/22) |
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| JAMESON, H.L. |
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Published two notes on Irish Coleoptera: 'Timarcha tenebricosa in Co. Waterford', IN., 2, 1893, p.199; and 'Coleoptera from Armagh', (includes Cionus thapsus and Quedius cruentis as new to Ireland), ibid., p.51. (MD 8/03) |
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| JAMESON, W.E. |
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Published with L.H.B.Wyse 'A Fortnight's Entomology in C. Waterford' which mentions Coleoptera, IN., 32, 1928, pp.9-17. Mentioned by Johnson and Halbert (1902) p.542. (MD 8/03) |
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| JANSON, Edward Wesley |
14 12? March 1822 - 14 September August? 1891. |
His family was of Dutch descent and his father was for many years London Agent of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company. In was in his father's office that Janson is recorded to have learned his business skills. Janson's interest in entomology was sufficiently developed by 1843 that he joined the Entomological Society, and his first publication was 'Notice of the occurrence of rare Coleopterous insects with observations on their habits' in Zool., 6, 1848, 2108-2110. In 1850 he was appointed Curator of the collections which the Society maintained at that time, a position which he held until 1863 when he became Librarian in which post he stayed until 1874. Janson's move from the Curatorship apparently resulted from differences of opinion about the relative merits of national and international research, and, since he had started up his natural history business in 1852, may also have involved differing attitudes to the commercialisation of the science. Certainly the writer of his obituary in EMM., 27, 1891, 278, hinted that his attitude was not sufficiently nationalistic as to be healthy and appears to apportion praise with reluctance: 'Most unfortunately for himself and the Society his peculiar temperament led to a serious split in the Society in 1862. All this time [1843-1862] Mr Janson was diligently collecting and studying the British Coleoptera, and did much and undoubtedly good work in an Order that was then comparatively little known, and to which the only guide was Stephens's Manual. He went the right way to work, and entered inrto correspondence with the leading Continental authorities on Coleoptera, therby clearing up many doubtful points, and adding largely to the number of known British species. He was a frequent contributor to the Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, etc. and from 1855 to 1861 furnished the chapter on British Coleoptera to the Entomologist's Annual. Here again his temperament unfortunately brought him into violent contact with his fellow workers, for our Coleopterists in those days were by no means a happy family.' The notes in the Entomologist's Annual recorded numerous species new to the British list, many of which he either took or identified himself. Janson was particularly interested in the literature of entomology and apart from amassing a considerable library, also involved himself, through his business, in publication. The Journal of Entomology, which appeared in 14 parts from 1862-1866, appears to have been his initiative although Taylor and Francis's name appears on it, but his name is clearly stated as publisher of Cistula Entomologica, which continued the series, in 29 parts, from 1869-1885. He also published a volume of British Beetles in 1863 with illustrations transferred from Curtis's British Entomology. Of the work he did through his business the writer of the obituary noted above stated 'As a Natural History agent he did much, and often for the mere love of the thing, to enrich the collections of many of our prominent entomologists; the amiable side of his character strongly and favourably exhibited itself with the mellowness of age'. Apart from his work on the British fauna Janson also put together a very large collection of world Elateridae, although he published only one article on this group 'Descriptions of six new species of Elateridae collected by Mr Clarence Buckley during his second expedition to Ecuador' in Cist. ent., 3, 1882, pp.33-37. This collection passed to NHM via F.D.Godman in June 1903 and is described in The History of the Collections..., 1906, p.590, as follows: 'It consists of 25,000 specimens of which at least 1000 are original types. Janson purchased the collection of this family made by M. Candeze, and which was the basis of his monograph. He also bought a second collection formed by Candeze, and he possessed according to a note found anmongst his papers the collections of Latreille, Dejean, Buquet, Reiche, Laferte, Gory, Parry, Deyrolle, Schaum (part), Bakewell (including Curtis), W.W.Saunders, Mniszech, E.Brown, A. Murray, H.Clark, and Atkinson. He also had large series of specimens collected by Wallace, Bates, Buckley etc.' There are also specimens bearing Janson's name in the Hall Collection at Oldham (information from S.Hayhow), the York Museum (information from M.Denton) and in the Mason Collection at Bolton. Apart from the obituary mentioned above there is another in Ent., 24, 1891, p.252. (MD 8/03) |
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| JANSON, Family |
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Entries on individual members of the family are given below. However, because there are numerous references in collections and the literature which it is often difficult to assign to one member of the family or another, sometimes because they refer to the family business, I have thought it useful to include this general reference. The Janson family became Natural History Agents and Booksellers at 44 Great Russell Street in 1852, and continued this business for more than a hundred years during which time they were purchasers and sellers of numerous specimens and collections from all over the world, and corresponded with many of the most important naturalists of the day. In 1991, after the business had closed, their records were presented to the Natural History Museum, Entomological Library. Harvey et al (1996) pp.110-112, describe the collection as follows: 'The archive consists of a vast amount of material including business papers, letters, letterbooks and account books, c. 1873-1929. It includes the papers of Edward Wesley Janson (1822-1891), Oliver Erichson Janson (1850-1926), Oliver Jordan Janson (1876-1964), O.E.Janson and Son, and Janson and Sons. The correspondence collection contains thousands of letters to and from entomologists and naturalists regarding the purchase and sale of collections, including specimens collected on expeditions and from private collections: [The following list excludes most of the foreigners but includes all British entomologists] Adams, H.J. (1898), Adkin, B.W. (1909-1921), Adkin, Robert (1894-1927), Andrewes H.E. (1899-1926), Angell, J.W. (1910-1920), Armitage, E. (1872-1879), Arrow G.J. (1899-1922), Bagnall, R.S. (1904-1908), Barrett, C.G. (1899-1900), Bates, F. (1872-1903), Bates, H.W. (1872-1879); Bell-Marley, H.W. (1912-1917), Bethune-Baker, G.T. (1901-1928), Black, J.E. (1900-1924), Buckton, G.B. (1898), Burr, M. (1898-1919), Butler, E.A. (1908), Cameron, M. (1913-1927), Carpenter, G.D.H. (1928), Carrington, J.T. (1906), Carter, H.J. (1928-1929), Champion, G.C. (1897-1926), Chitty, A.J. (1900), Christy, W.M. (1898), Cockayne, E.A. (1911), Coe, R.L. (1927), Collin, J.E. (1899-1923), Cooke, B. (1874), Crawford W.M. (1923), Crotch, G.R. (1872-1874), Davidson J. (1922-1925), Day, G.O. (1896-1905), Distant, W.L. (1879-1920), Doherty, W. (1893-1901), Dow, R.P. (1914), Dunning, J.W. (1872-1877), Elwes, H.J. (1893-1894), Embry, B. (1927), Fitch, E.A. (1874-1877), Fowler, W.W. (1877-1911), Froggatt, W.W. (1927), Frohawk, F.W. (1894-1922), Fryer, H.F. (1877-1879), Gimingham, C.T. (1920-1926), Gorham, H.S. (1872-1911), Gosse, P.H. (1879), Gray, J.E. (1872), Hallett, H.M. (1917), Hampson, G.F. (1902-1906), Harrison, A. (1904-1909), HEMMing, A.F. (1919-1929), Hewitson, W.C. (1873-1876), Holland, W.J. (1893-1929), Jeffery, H.G. (1923), Johnson, C.W. (1904-1905), Joy, N.H. (1902-1920), Kirby, W.F. (1879-1905), Lowther, R.C. (1921-1924), Mason, F.R. (1909-1918), May, J.W. (1875), Meyrick E. (1877-1905), Newman, E. (1872-1875), Ormerod, E.A. (1879-1900), Parry, F.J.S. (1873-1875), Pascoe, F.P. (1875), Pickard-Cambridge, A. (1917), Reynolds, L.R. (1917-1918), Roebuck, W.D. (1874-1907), Rye, E.C. (1872-1875), Selous, C.F. (1906-1929), Sheldon, W.G. (1896-1926), Shipp, W.J. (1893-1897), Stainton, H.T. (1872-1874), Stoneham, H.F. (1929), Swinhoe, C. (1893), Theobold, F.V. (1921), Wallace, A.R. (1876-1903) and Wollaston, T.V. (1872-1878)'. Sharon Reid at the Central Science Laboratory (DEFRA), York, informs me that there are specimens labelled simply Janson in the F.Bates collection there (see BATES, F. and WILLIAMS, B.S.) (MD 8/03, 10/03) |
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