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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| MACKINTOSH, G.H. | Former lecturer in Agricultural Zoology at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen. 867 beetles collected by Mackintosh are in the College collection and cover the period 1949-1957. (Fenscore). (MD 2/04) | ||
| MACLEAY, Alexander | 24 June 1767 – 1848 | Born in county of Ross of an ancient Scottish family. His father was Provost of Wick and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Caithness. Took up various public positions including, in 1795, Chief Clerk in the Prisoners of War Office. In 1797 he was Head of the Correspondence Department of the Transport Board and in 1806 Secretary of the Board. In 1825 he was selected by Earl Bathurst to be Colonial Secretary to the Government of New South Wales and left for Australia. There he rose to become first Speaker of the Legislative Council, from which he retired in 1846. He married early in life and had 17 children. He died in Sydney where he helped to found the Museum. Before leaving England Macleay gave ‘27 years of unremitted and unrequited labour’ to the Linnean Society. This included taking on the Secretaryship from his friend Thomas Marsham in 1798. His chief natural history interest was entomology and he is recorded to have had ‘the finest and most extensive collection then existing of any private individual in England’. This included the British Collection of John Curtis now housed in Melbourne. Macleay is not recorded to have published on entomology, but there is MS correspondence, etc. in the Linnean Society. Stephens (1828) p.2 refers to him as ‘my friend’ and talks about his philosophical views on insect structure and arrangement. Chalmers-Hunt (1976) notes that Macleay was present at the sale of Dru Drury’s collection (p.4) and that he bought many of the lots at the Francillon sale which included many Fabrician as well as Donovan types (pp.5-6). Macleay himself sold 122 lots of duplicate insects on 9 July 1814 at King and Lochee, the 4pp catalogue is in the HDO library. FRS from 1809. There is a reference to him not previously noticed in Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, 3, n.d. [c.1880], p.275. (MD 2/04) | |
| MACLEAY, Sir William John | 13 June 1820 – 7 December 1891 | Born in Scotland and emigrated to New South Wales in 1839. Member of the Legislative Assembly there from 1854-1874. Knighted in 1889. In 1874 he carried out a scientific expedition to New Guinea chiefly at his own expense. Much of his entomological work in Australia was based on Coleoptera on which he published many papers. Founder and first President of the Entomological Society of New South Wales and of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. There are twelve obituary and other notices in Gilbert (1977) p.240. (MD 2/04) | |
| MACLEAY, William Sharp | 21 July 1792 – 26 January 1865 | Born in London the eldest son of Alexander Macleay (see above). Published Horae Entomologicae between 1819-1821 (some articles subsequently published separately eg. ‘Annulosa Javanica or an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by T.Horsfield. Coleoptera’, 1825. pp.50 and 2 plates), and some notes on insects in other publications including ‘Remarks on the devastation occasioned by Hylobius abietis in fir plantations’ (Zool. Journal, 1824-25, pp.444-448) and several notes in Trans.LSL. Subsequently emigrated to Australia where he died (Sydney). Smith (1986) records that Macleay sent many insects to Hope (c.1842) together with 8 beetles from Australia, and that there are also in the HDO letters from Macleay to Hope (1839-43) and Westwood (1833) and a list of Annulosa sent to Hope. Gilbert (1977) lists 10 obituary and other notices. (MD 2/04) | |
| MACTAGGART, J. | Gave several collections of beetles to the RSM starting with 83 specimens from Aberdour in 1900 (1900-103). (MD 2/04) | ||
| MAHONEY, Eugene | 1899- 21 June 1951 | Worked in the National Museum, Dublin, from 1922 as Technical Assistant (although he took charge of the zoological collections between 1924 to 1930) where he was much influenced by A.R.Nichols and J.N.Halbert. Perhaps best known for his later work on Mallophaga and Siphonaptera of which he compiled a Catalogue of the Irish species, but he also wrote some fifty articles on Irish Coleoptera between 1924 and 1951 (listed in Ryan, et al. (1984) pp.80-83.) Most appeared in the EMM, and many introduced new national and county records. In 1929 he prepared a supplementary list of Irish beetles which was published under the editorship of Dr R.Lloyd Praeger in Proc. R. Irish Academy, 93(B), pp.22-36 O’Mahoney’s collection of Irish Coleoptera amounting to 12,209 species was presented to the HDO by his family in 1951. Smith (1986) p. 84 notes that there is also manuscript material there including a notebook titled ‘Records of beetles in Co.Dublin (North East)’ and some correspondence. There is an obituary in INJ., 10, 1952, pp.229-230. (MD 7/04) |
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| MANDER, P. Brian | Contributed Coleoptera to the collection at Sheffield Museum between 1971-72. (Information from Steve Garland). (MD 2/04) | ||
| MANDERS, Neville | 1857 - 1915 | A Colonel in the army who died ‘gloriously’ at Gallipoli. Mainly a Lepidopterist but Fowler (1912) records that he collected Paussidae in Burma. A collection of Lepidoptera alone was sold by Stevens on 20-21 June 1916. FESL 1887-1915. (MD 2/04) | |
| MARKWICK, William | Published ‘Observations on the Curculio trifolii or Clover weevil.... With additional remarks by Thomas Marsham’ in Trans.LSL., 6, 1802, pp.142-146. (MD 2/04) | ||
| MARQUAND, Ernest David | 1848 -1918 | Born in Guernsey and trained as a solicitor. Stayed in Guernsey only intermittently, living at different times in the USA, Paris, Alderney, London, Devon, Hampshire and Cornwall. Awarded a bonze medal by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Soc. for an essay on Cornish beetles. Also interested in botany and Hymenoptera. Died at Totnes. A collection of 5000 beetles made by Marquand is in the Guille-Alles Museum, Guernsey, originally in a 12 drawer cabinet and 20 store boxes, together with mss (4 pages). The collection may have been in the possession of W.A.Luff before his death in 1910. Includes material from E.Saunders who also did dets for him, J.B.Bridgman and Kempwelch (Fenscore). There is an obituary by B.T.Rowswell in Trans. Guernesy Soc. nat. Sci. 8, 1918, pp.83-90, including a bibliography, which I have not seen. He is also referred to in Jn. Biol. Curation, 1, pp.5-19 . (MD 2/04) |