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 | |
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| DALGLISH, Andrew Adie | Lived in Pollokshields, Glasgow. Published ‘Further captures of Galerucella fergussoni Fowler’ in EMM., 46, 1910, pp.262-63. Also collected Lepidoptera and other orders. His collections were sold by Stevens on 2 December 1924. The Catalogue lists twenty two 16" boxes of beetles two of which contained specimens from Russia (I am most grateful to Eric Gowing-Scopes for sending me a photocopy of the copy of this catalogue in his possession). (MD 5/02) | ||
| DALLAS | A Doctor. Collected insects including Coleoptera for the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in Argentina which were given to the NHM in 1928 (1928.170) FRES from 1948. (MD 3/03) (MD 5/02) | ||
| DALLAS, William Sweetland | 31 January 1824 - 28 May 1890 | Born in London. His systematic work was entirely confined to the Hemiptera, but he did write a popular work Elements of Entomology, 1857, which has chapters on beetles. As the editor of Popular Science Review and ANMNH he also promoted Coleoptera, particularly in the latter as the translator and compiler of abstracts of important foreign publications. Dallas also translated Von Siebold's Parthenogenesis from the German in 1858 when it was looked upon not just as physically impossible but also as vastly heretical, and Fritz Muller's Fur Darwin. Another very important service which Dallas provided as someone interested in the literature was to compile the whole of the Insecta part of the Zoological Record, with which he was associated from its commencement in 1864, for five years, and partially for a sixth year. Dallas was made Curator of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in 1858, a post which he held until 1868 when he was made Assistant Secretary to the Geological Society in London. This is presumably the same W.Dallas who gave beetles from Colney Hatch, Kentish Town and Brighton to the NHM in 1847 (1847.63). Gilbert (1977) p.83 lists seven obituaries and other notices. (MD 5/02) | |
| DALRYMPLE, T.H. | Gave five Coleoptera and other insects collected in Sierra Leone to the NHM in 1932 (1932.327) | ||
| DALTON, G. | Gave an example of Sagra quadraticollis from Sarawak to the NHM on 25 May 1910 (1910.204). (MD 5/02) | ||
| DALTON, Mrs Editha | Gave various gifts on insects collected by herself in Tanganyika to the NHM including 20 beetles in 1926 (1926.102) and one in 1934. | ||
| DALTON, R.F. | Published ‘Pseudomesomphalia indigacea Boh. in Dorset’ in EMM., 89, 1953, p.21. He gave his address as the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DALTRY, Harold William | 11 January 1887 - 20 March 1962 | Son of the Rev. Thomas William Daltry (1832-1904) of Madeley Vicarage, Newcastle, Staffordshire. Educated at Marlborough College. Joined the staff of the London and North Western Railway Works at Crewe as a locomotive designer and tester. After retiring he moved to Rugby where he died. Daltry's interest in entomology began with Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera and is recorded to have been first stimulated when he was at Marlborough by Edward Meyrick, although his father, who was also an entomologist, must presumably have been an influence too. In 1905 he joined the North Staffordshire Field Club of which his father had earlier been President, and he remained a member until his death, serving at one time as Chairman of the Entomology Section. During this time he interested himself in most orders with the exception of the Diptera, and he published many notes in Transactions of the Club, Ent. and EMM. He was also a keen botanist specialising in the brambles in particular of which Rubus daltrii was named after him. According to his friend Dr M.W.R. de V. Graham, who wrote his obituary in Ent., 95, 1962, pp.255-56, Daltry 'early became a very competent Coleopterist', although most of his publications were on Hemiptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. His first notes on beetles seem to have been 'Staphylinus globulifer Forc. and allied species in Britain', EMM., 67, 1931, p.41, and ‘Staphylinus aeneocephalus De Geer and S. cupreus Rossi in Britain’, ibid., p.142. Further articles then appeared in this periodical every few years until ‘Philonthus dimidiatipennis Erichson in Britain’ 94, 1958, p.66. In ‘Occurrence of Odontoscelis dorsalis Fab. in E. Kent’, ibid., 71, 1935, pp.42-43, he refers to E.C.Bedwell as his friend, and I have seen specimens collected by Daltry in the Bedwell collection in the Castle Museum, Norwich. In ‘Cartodere filum Aube in Cheshire’, ibid., 84, 1948, p.9, he mentions W.D.Graddon and H. Britten as friends, and in ‘Cicindela germanica L. in Dorset’, ibid., 85, 1949, p.283 he refers to Philip Harwood as a friend too. Apart from the Norwich specimens referred to above I have also seen material collected by Daltry in the general collection and in Colin Johnson's collection of British weevils at Manchester. His main collection of British insects of all orders and his notebooks were given to Dr M.W.R. de V. Graham and placed on loan in HDO before being donated to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry in 1983 (Smith (1986) p.112).The Coventry collection consists of 18,977 British Coleoptera (information from Steve Lane). Among the large number of gifts of insects which he made to the NHM were several of Coleoptera: 1933.38 (2 specimens); 1935.26 (5 weevils) and 1935.81 (4 specimens). FRES from 1929. Member AES. Apart from the obituary referred to above there is a short note in Proc.FRESL., C, 27, 1962-63, p.50. (MD 5/02) | |
| DALY, Mahon | Gave 2 beetles from Siam to the NHM in 1900 (1900.121) and a further 4 two years later (1902.33). (MD 5/02) | ||
| DALY, P.J. | Published ‘Ultrastructure of antennal sensilla of Nebria brevicollis (Fab.)’ with M.F.Ryan in Int.J.of Insect Morph.and Embryology, 8, 1979, pp.169-181. (MD 5/02) |