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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| DUNLOP, Gavin Alfred | 1868 - 3 April 1933 | Born in Nottingham of Scottish parents and educated at Govan. He intended to go to Glasgow University but was prevented and took up coach-building during the day while studying the natural sciences in the evening. The knowledge he gained in this way eventually enabled him to give up coach-building and obtain a post in the Museum at Keighly. Subsequently he transferred to Warrington Museum where he remained for the rest of his career. For much of his life Dunlop was handicapped by both lameness and deafness. Dunlop was particularly interested in field work and in marinezoology. He was an active member of the Warrington Field Club and of the Warrington Literary and Philosophical Society and contributed many papers to the journals of both societies. His entomological work covered a wide range and led him to compile the regular entomological reports in the journal of the Field Club. His best known work in this field is perhaps his list of the Aculeate Hymenoptera of the Warrington district. He also published ‘A note on some inhabitants of a badger's nest’ which included beetles, in EMM., 46, 1910, pp.15-16, and he is mentioned by W.E.Sharp, The Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1908, p.15. Many beetles collected by Dunlop are in the general collection at Doncaster Museum (I am grateful to Peter Skidmore for this information). Dunlop was an ardent supporter of the North Western Naturalists Union. There is an obituary with a portrait in North Western Naturalist, 8, 1933, pp.142-145, 163. (MD 9/02) | |
| DUNNING, Joseph William | 5 November 1833 - 15 October 1897 | General entomologist whose main work was on the Lepidoptera but who also published one or two notes on Xylotrechus and ‘Cetonia aurata emerging in April’, Trans.ESL., 1869, p.xi. Dunning was responsible for the ESL gaining its charter and gave very generously of his time and funds to this institution of which he was President 1883-84. Gilbert (1977) lists 6 obituaries and other notices. (MD 9/02) | |
| DUPRE, Charles C. | C.W.Waterhouse's Localities volume in the RSM mentions that he collected with Dupre. Dupre's collection is now in Bolton Museum as part of the Mason collection (identifiable by small white labels). Hancock and Pettitt (1981) record that it includes some 3,000 specimens collected mainly in the South East in the period 1871-78, together with a MS Register of Coleoptera, with code numbers, which enables specimens from other collectors to be identified. About 500 specimens from J. Scott, G.R.Crotch, R. Lawson, Power and Janson are included. Simms (1968) records material in the W.C.Hey collection at York. Dupre lived at 35A Russell Road, Kensington, London. (MD 9/02, 12/21) |
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| DUR(R?)AND, J.L.E. | Listed in the Ent.Ann. in 1857 and 1860 as interested in British and French Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His address is given as Postern Street, Nottingham. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DURHAM, Earl of | Gave 3000 insects to the Sunderland Art Gallery and Museum on 24 April 1907. Most without data. (MD 9/02) | ||
| DURHAM, H.E. | Worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Gave 67 Coleoptera from Para, Brazil to the NHM in 1901 (1901.323). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DURRANT, John Hartley | 10 January 1863 - 18 January 1928 | Well known Lepidopterist and authority on entomological nomenclature who was Lord Walsingham’s private secretary and had charge of his collections. When Walsingham left his collection to the NHM he provided funds for Durrant to continue to look after it. Durrant published two notes on species of ‘Blaps from Hitchin’ (Trans.ESL., 1884, Proc. p.xx; and EMM., 21, 1884, p.112) and made several donations of Coleoptera to the NHM between 1885 and 1933: a Blaps from Hitchin (85.33); 73 specimens collected in Madagascar by Kingdon (1911.151); Odontaeus mobilicornis from Merton, Norfolk (1911.107). Others 1928-33. A further 1,205 Coleoptera and other insects chiefly collected in Hertfordshire and Norfolk were given to the Museum by his wife in 1928 (1928.99). There is material related to Durrant in David Sharp’s scrapbook and autograph album in the RESL (Pedersen (2002) p.49). Gilbert (1977) lists eight obituaries of which the most important is probably that by N.D.Riley in Ent., 61, 1928, pp.73-75 which includes a portrait. (MD 9/02) | |
| DURRANT, John Hartley | 10 January 1863 - 19 January 1928 | were given to the Museum by his wife in 1928 (1928.99). There is material related to Durrant in David Sharp’s scrapbook and autograph album in the RESL (Pedersen (2002) p.49). Gilbert (1977) lists eight obituaries of which the most important is probably that by N.D. Riley in Ent., 61, 1928, pp. 73-75 which includes a portrait. (MD 9/02, 11/09) | |
| DUTHIE, J.T. | Gave 50 Coleoptera from Bengal to the NHM in 1884 (84.37). (MD 9/02) | ||
| DUTT, G.R. | This name appears on Coleoptera in the collection of the Pusa Institute, Delhi. He is named by G.J.Arrow, FBI, Llamelicornia, as collecting Coleoptera at Chapra, Bengal. (MD 9/02) |