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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| EUSTACE, Eustace Mallabone | 1880 - 1951 | Johnson (2009) notes that he was born in Kingston, Surrey and died at Barnstable. And that he was a master at Wellington College 1904-1945 where his retirement notice ‘states that he was a keen natural historian and mathematician’, according to Guy Williams. He published 'Two Coleoptera new to Berkshire [Claviger longicornis Mull. and Anthicus tobias Mars.]' in EMM., 82, 1946, p.45, and 'Neuraphes planifrons Blatch and other species of the genus in Berkshire', ibid., 87, 1951, p. 93. The major part of Eustace's collections, including Lepidoptera and 20,000 specimens of Coleoptera were acquired by the Manchester Museum in 1958 via R.W. Lloyd. It is accompanied by a collecting notebook titled Notes on the Coleoptera in my collection taken by myself unless otherwise stated. Order as in Beare in Donisthorpe 1904 which covers the period 1912-1946, and by letters from other Coleopterists. Many of the specimens were taken in the area of the College and bear labels printed ‘Well. Coll.’ A smaller part, comprising 8,206 specimens, was donated to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, by the Manchester Museum in 1962. (Information from Steve Lane). I have also seen specimens collected by Eustace in the general collection at Doncaster Museum and K.C. Lewis tells me that he has specimens in his collection. (MD 10/02, 12/06, 11/09) | |
| EVANS, F.C. | Smith (1986) pp.90,155 records that Evans and H.G.Vevers gave 87 Coleoptera and Diptera from the Island of Myggenaes in the Faroes to the HDO in 1938. The collection is accompanied by field notes dated July 1937. (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVANS, H. Silvester | Gave more than 5,000 Coleoptera which he had collected to the NHM, many through the International Institute of Entomology, as follows: 2 from Belgian Congo (1933.382); 2,116 from Fiji and Central America (1933.451); 83 Carabidae from Begian Congo (1937.1); 2,130 from Belgian Congo and N. Rhodesia; 6 from Fiji (1932.155); 5 from the Pacific Islands (1951.74); 5 from Africa (1951.74 and 120); and 7 from Fiji (1952.613). Smith (1986) p.118 records that he also gave insects to the HDO but Coleoptera are not mentioned specifically. (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVANS, J.W. | Gave various insects from West Africa to the NHM in 1849 including Coleoptera (1849.36). (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVANS, L. | A Doctor of Medicine. Listed as a subscriber Denny (1825). His address is givenas St. Giles, Norwich. (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVANS, Michael S. | d.1988 | Son of I.M.Evans. Before his early death in a climbing accident, Evans's main interests were in wood lice, of which he was recorder for the county of Leicestershire, and in the Carabidae. He published a note on ‘Leistus rufomarginatus (Dufts.) in Leicestershire’ in EMM., 114, 1978, p.125, based on a specimen taken by his friend E. Randall Wright. (Information from Derek Lott). (MD 10/02) | |
| EVANS, Mrs | Gave 100 Beetles from Assam which were registered at the NHM in 1885 with the note ‘These were received in a bottle with spirit many years ago, but no letter of explanation accompanied them’. (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVANS, R. de B. | Collected 2,000 insects including 33 Coleoptera from Columbia, Trinidad, Venezuela and other countries which were given to the NHM by Miss B.A.H.Evans in 1934 (1934.29). (MD 10/02) | ||
| EVANS, William | 1850 - 23 October 1922 | Born in Edinburgh. He entered the service of the Scottish Widows Fund but was obliged to retire when in his early 40s as a result of ill health. He then devoted the remainder of his life to a wide range of natural history pursuits including entomology. Although he had travelled extensively in the British Isles and in Europe, and had visited the United States and Canada, most of his work was on the Scottish fauna and flora, particularly of the Forth area. Evans's interest in entomology was wide ranging as the many notes and articles which he published in the Ann. Scot. nat. Hist. and, after 1900, in other periodicals, show. The first devoted to Coleoptera appears to have been ‘Saperda carcharias L. in Elginshire’ (Ann. Scot. nat Hist., 1, 1892, p.78) and the last ‘Apion miniatum Germ.in Scotland’ (EMM., 54, 1918, p.64). His publications included one note with T. Hudson Beare on the Coleoptera of Mole's nests in the Edinburgh district (EMM., 45, 1909, p.88). As a recorder Evans is said to have been scrupulously careful to ensure accuracy, and what he could not identify with certainty he sent to others. For some time his work on the Scottish fauna was varied by the preparation and distribution of the large amounts of material which his son William Edgar Evans (see below) forwarded to him from Mesopotamia. Evans was at one time President of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh and is recorded to have been an editor of the Scottish Naturalist (although his name is not officially listed as such in that publication). There are 193 records of Coleoptera on the Nottingham Natural History Museum database, mostly ‘WE’, some as ‘Evans,W’ or ‘Evans’, from various Scottish localities (Aberfoyle, Aviemore, Dollar, Kincraig, etc., 1889-1898, some in the Thornley and Ryles collections (Information from Michael Cooper). Gilbert (1977) lists four obituaries and there is an account with portrait in P. Bonnet, Bibliographia Araneorum, 1, 1945, p.51. (MD 10/02) |
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| EVANS, William Edgar | Son of William Evans (see above). Collected a large number of insects in Mesopotamia while serving there as a Captain in the R.A.M.C.. K.J.Morton, ‘Odonata from Mesopotamia’ in EMM., 55, 1919, pp.142-151, gives some account of his travels there. Many of these insects, including types, were subsequently acquired by the RSM (1951.73) together with Evans's collecting diary. (MD 10/02) |