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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| DOWDING, C.C. | Thanked by G.E.Bodkin ‘Notes on the Coleoptera of British Guiana’ EMM., 55, 1919, p.210. Perhaps this is the Captain Dowding who gave 6 Coleoptera from Ecuador to the NHM in 1893 (93.71). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DOWELL, Clarence | Gave 23 Coleoptera from Queensland to the NHM in 1903 (1903.243). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DOWLER | A Doctor who lived in Richmond. Gave a collection of insects including 789 beetles to the NHM in October 1843 (43.57). A note in the Accessions volume states 'These were collected by Dr Dowler himself the localities are indicated by the heads of the pins: ‘without wax' - Polish Ukraine; 'black wax' - Odessa; 'dark green wax' - Tyrol; 'yellow wax' - Switzerland; 'orange wax' - Italy; 'light blue wax' - England'. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DOWLING, D.N. | Listed as a subscriber to the Coleopterists Newsletter in 1981 (MD 1/22) |
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| DOWNES | A Captain. Fowler and Arrow in their FBI volumes, 1912 and 1917, note that he collected Paussidae and Rutelinae at Bombay. Could this be the 'Commander Downes' after whom W. Hope named Lucanus downesii perhaps ('Characters and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species of Coleopterous Insects', Trans.ZSL., 1, 1833, p.99)? The same paper also refers to Captain Downes as the author of Prionus hayesii in a MSS (104), which at that time was the largest beetle known. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DOWNES, E | A Doctor. Gave a species of Tillus to the NHM through S. Baly in 1861 (61.15) and a further 15 beetles from Bombay in the following year (62.46). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DOWNES, J.A. | Published three articles on insects in Trans.SLENHS between 1934 and 1936. By 1945 he seems to have been attached to the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow for he is recorded to have collected 73 Coleoptera 'some of which may be co-types' on Christmas island which the Department gave to the NHM (1946.93). This is presumably the same Downes who collected the 36 Coleoptera 'including 11 types from the Bishop Coll' which the Department gave to the Museum in the preceding year (1945.98). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DOWNING, A.K.W. | See WELD-DOWNING, A.K. | ||
| DOWSETT, A | Mentioned in O.Janson's MS diary in the Cambridge Museum in May 1875. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DRAKE, P.C. | Gave a collection of insects including 15 Coleoptera made in Lapland as a member of the Senior Public Schools Expedition to NHM in 1936 (1936.770). (MD 9/02) |