Biographical dictionary
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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| CLEMENTS, H.A.B. | Published Miscodera arctica (Payk.) and other Carabidae in Sherwood Forest' in EMM., 103, 1967, p.25. Lived at 13 Lansdowne Road, Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicestershire. Lott (2009) p.51 records: ‘I have a note that Clement’s ground beetles (Carabidae) are with I.M.Evans, but the rest of his collection is held by Leicestershire Museums Service (Acc. no. Z333.1984)’. (MD 3/02, 11/09) | ||
| CLINGING, Robert | A Doctor. He donated small numbers of Coleoptera collected in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire between 1976-80, to the Sheffield Museum (I am grateful to Steve Garland for this information). (MD 3/02) | ||
| COBBOLD, T. | Listed as a subscriber to Denny, H. (1825). Lived at Catton. (MD 3/02) | ||
| COCKAYNE, Edward Alfred | 3 October 1880 - 1955 | Well known Lepidopterist and worker on genetics. His Publications on teratology included 'Cantharidae with reduplicated legs' in EMM., 79, 1943, p.200. (MD 3/02) | |
| COCKCROFT, G.E.D. | There are various specimens in the general collection at Doncaster Museum bearing this name. (MD 3/02) | ||
| COCKERELL, Theodore Dru Alison | 22 August 1866 - 1948 | Well known American entomologist who did vast amounts of systematic work in many orders of animals, and also in plants and fossils. Born in Norwood, South London. Educated at various private schools and at the Middlesex Hospital, before moving to Jamaica, where he was curator of the Museum 1891-1893, and then to America. There are references to beetles in his entomological work although this was mainly confined to the Coccidae and to Hymenoptera. Beetles are among the many insects he gave to the British Museum between 1886 and his death. Gilbert,P. (1977) lists nineteen obituaries, etc.. (MD 3/02) | |
| COCKS, T. | Mentioned in Stephens,J. (1828) p.176. (A copy of Janson, E.W., British Beetles, bearing his bookplate, was owned by Quaritchs in c.1985). (MD 3/02) | ||
| CODRINGTON, R. | Gave 588 insects of various orders from North East Rhodesia to the NHM in 1906 (Riley,N.D. (1964) p.29) (MD 3/02) | ||
| COE, Ralph Leonard | 16 March 1906 - 13 March 1968 | Famous dipterist. Gave 8,890 insects of all orders from Yugoslavia to the British Museum in 1958 (Riley (1964) p.46. This was his second visit. He also travelled to Nepal in 1962. (On the NHM staff?) Pedersen (2002) notes correspondence with C.J.Wainwright in the RESL. (MD 3/02, 11/09, 2/20) |
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| COFFIN, E. Pine | There are five double boxes of insects of all orders collected by Pine in Mexico in the HDO (acquired through Westwood in 1857) together with accompanying MS material concerning habitats (Smith, A.Z. (1986) pp.71,110). (MD 3/02) |