Biographical dictionary

The Biographical Dictionary of British Coleopterists was compiled by the late Michael Darby. The Dictionary can be accessed below, and see also the additional information provide by Michael:

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Name Dates Biography
||Meel, Albert Stewart 1871 -1943

A professional natural history collector who collected many Coleoptera in New Guinea. the surrounding Islands, and the Solomon Islands. (see Peter Andrews  ‘The Jansons, a family of entomologists’ on the Collector’s Secrets website.