Biographical dictionary
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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, Miss | Gave 63 Coleoptera from Algeria to the NHM in 1904 and 1905 (1904.288 and 1905.147) Her address is noted as 28 Hans Place, London, SW. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIES, R.D. | Published ‘Saperda scalaris (L.) breeding in Caernarvon’ in EMM., 88, 1952, p.205. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIES, T. Glyn | Published ‘Wheat Stem Flea Beetle Crepidodera ferruginea Scop. Damage in cereals in N. Wales’ in EMM., 100, 1964, p.69. E.J.Cadwallader, ‘Records of Curculionidae from North Wales’, ibid., 104, 1968, p.129, thanks Davies for his help in compiling the list. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS | Formed a general collection of British insects (in 54 drawers) and birds eggs (in 3 drawers) which was given to Clitheroe Castle Museum by his daughter who described it as 'her father's collection'(Hancock and Pettit (1981)). (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS | Dawson (1854) p.xi, refers to an article by Davis in Loudon, J.C., Magazine of Natural History, V, which I have not seen. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS, Abraham Hopkins | Published a number of entomological notes up to 1840 when he went to Australia. These included ‘Observations on Lucanus cervus, Obrium cantharinum, Vespa vulgaris’ in EMM., 1, 1832, pp.86-87,90. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS, F.L. | Gave 6 Coleoptera he had collected in Conozal, British Homduras to the NHM (1923.434 and 1926.399) (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS, R.L. | Sold 5 British Coleoptera larvae and 1 larva plus wood attacked by Clytus 4-punctata from Italy to the NHM in October 1871 (71.16) (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS, W.B. | Published ‘Smicronyx reiches Gyll. and Ceuthorhynchus viduatus Gyll. in Gloucestershire’ in EMM., 53, 1917, p.129. The article makes clear that he collected widely in the county. Lived at 3 Rosebank Villas, Churchfield Road, Stroud. (MD 5/02) | ||
| DAVIS, William Beverley | Lived in Stroud and collected assiduously Coleoptera from 1902 to 1923 in the vicinity with occasional visits to the Forest of Dean. Atty (1983, v.) records that Davis's collection and diary are in the Bristol City Museum and that 'it is a pleasure to consult Davis's work after the nebulous dubieties of earlier collectors, once is idiosyncratic coding of localities is deciphered. His records are copious and meticulous...the great majority were correctly identified, even some rare species; the exceptions were either queried by Davis himself or are in difficult or subsequently revised genera.' Gave (MD 5/02, 8/07) |