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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEANE, G. | Gave 5 Coleoptera from Cape Colony to the NHM in 1900 (1900.51). Probably related to H.F.Deane who gave a weevil from the same locality in 1908 (1908.43). (MD 6/02) | ||
| DEANE, J. Davy | Published ‘Dytiscus dimidiatus Bergstr. in South Wales' in EMM., 70, 1934, 261. He was attached to the Department of Zoology at the NMW. (MD 6/02) | ||
| DEARING, Ernest | Lived at Burnley, Lancashire and collected Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. FRES 1960-62. (MD 3/03) | ||
| DEBY, Julian | Mick Cooper informs me that there is further information about Deby in Nottingham Museum. (MD 10/03) | ||
| DEBY, Julian | Published a note on Lyctus canaliculatus in Zool., 6, 1848, p.2116. Presumably this is the same J.Deby who later gave 5 Coleoptera from Java to the NHM (91.31) and Afractocerus luteolus Fairm. from Sumatra (91.46). An extract from a letter with the latter mentions how it was caught, that he spent one year in Sumatra and that other specimens were given to the Belgian Entomological Society. He lived at 31 Belsize Avenue, S. Hampstead, London. (MD 6/02) | ||
| DECIE | A Captain. Gave 4 Coleoptera from Karachi to the NHM in 1900 (1900.119) (MD 6/02) | ||
| DEGEN, E. | The NHM purchased 100 Coleoptera in 1899 which Degen had collected in Australia (99.147), and in 1909 he gave two further beetles he had collected in Uganda (1909.183). (MD 6/02) | ||
| DELAP, M.J. | Thanked for help by Johnson and Halbert (1902), p.543. Presumably this is the same M. Dulap who published ‘A rare weevil in Counties Dublin and Kerry’ in INJ., 3, 1930, p.20. Miss Delap, who is also thanked (p.542), was presumably a relative. (MD 6/02) | ||
| DENDY, Miss | Left 56 Coleoptera from Darjeeling ‘without instruction’ in the NHM in 1883 (1903.374). (MD 6/02) | ||
| DENNIS, Alfred W. | Correspondence with W.E.Sharp is in the Liverpool Museum (Volume 2, p.380). (MD 6/02) |