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| KLEMPERER, Hugh | d. 1989 | There are mounted Geotrupidae collected by Klemperer in Britain, S.Africa and Jamaica in the collection of Birmingham Natural History Society. Geoff Hancock tells me that he worked with Klemporer's niece Carol at Bolton Museum before she moved to Kendal Museum as a Curator and 'Due to our time working together in Bolton when her uncle Hugh Klemperer at Birmingham University died (1989) she recommended to the family to contact me about his collection. By this time I had also moved (in 1985) to Kelvingrove, Glasgow, and accepted the donation. It was small in terms of museum quality material including brood balls from the various geotrupids and coprids (some African species) whose social behaviours he studied and on which he published. But it is an interesting set of specimens. (MD 10/03, 8/20) |
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| KLOET, George Sidney | 1904 – 1981 | Joint author with W.D.Hincks of A Checklist of British Insects (1945). Not well known as a Coleopterist but Johnson (2004) p.12 records that he published many local records of beetles in the Transactions and Reports of the Manchester Entomological Society. Some 50 beetles collected by him are in the G.W.R.Bartindale collection at Manchester Museum. There are obituaries by E,J,Popham in North Western Naturalist, 1982, pp. 9-10, and R. Underwood, The Raven Entomological and Natural History Society, Fifty Years, 1946 to 1996, (1996) which I have not seen. (MD 11/09) | |
| KONYNENBURG, Joyce van | Lived in Spalding, Lincolnshire and worked on insects of horticultural and agricultural importance, particularly Coleoptera. FRES from 1948. (MD 8/03) | ||
| LAMB, Charles George | 1861?1867 - 1941 | Worked in the Engineering Laboratory at Cambridge where he had clearly met David Sharp. Published 'A note on Rhizotrogus ochraceus' in EMM, 53, 1917, pp. 210-212, and Andrew Duff has pointed out to me that according to Fowler & Donisthorpe (1913, p.122) it was Lamb who first discovered Corticaria lambiana Sharp, 1910 (now in Corticarina) on an oak tree in the New Forest in August 1908, the species being named in his honour. Full details of the discovery are given in Sharp's original paper in EMM. See: https://www. |
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| LAMBERT, F.W. | Published several articles on Coleoptera in Ent. in the 1890s including ‘Homaloplia ruricola’ (25, 1892, p.321), ‘Callidium variabile’ (27, 1894, p.321) and ‘Cicindela germanica in Dorset’ (30, 1897, p.248). (MD 11/03) | ||
| LAMPLOUGH, E. | Published ‘Dytiscus marginalis in a drapers shop’ in Sci. Gossip, 23, 1887, p.19. (MD 11/03) | ||
| LANE, Alan Wilfrid | Lived in Beckenham, Kent and had a special interest in Coleoptera. (MD 11/03) | ||
| LANGHAM, C. | Published two articles on beetles in the Irish Naturalist, 6, 1897: ‘Coleoptera taken at Tempo, Enniskillen’ (p.57) and ‘Tachypus pallipes, a beetle new to Ireland’ (p.58). (MD 11/03) | ||
| LANGTON, P.H. | Keith Lewis tells me that there are specimens collected by Langton in his collection. (MD 12/06) | ||
| LARKIN, Frederick | Gave Lepidoptera and Coleoptera from Calcutta to Glasgow in 1883 (1883-88). Lived at 9 Port Street, Anderston, Glasgow. (Information from Geoff Hancock). (MD 11/03) |