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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALCONAR, Magnus | Sold a collection of natural history specimens including insects through Stevens between 12 and 22 October 1778. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FALCONER, William | There are specimens in the general collection of Coleoptera at Doncaster Museum bearing Falconer's name. Some are dated 1916. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FANSHAWE, Lyonell | Published ‘Notes on the capture and preservation of Coleoptera’ in Ent., 18, 1885, pp.65-70, 136-139 and 190-192. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FARINGTON, Miss | Published a ‘Letter on the occurrence of Ptinus hololeucus’ in Proc.ESL., 1862, p.92. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FARIS, R.C. | Published ‘A "swarm" of Cockchafers in County Cavan’, in INJ., 5, 1935, pp.270-271; ‘The beetle Carabus clathratus L. at Low altitudes inland’, ibid., 8, 1943, p.84; and ‘Metoecus paradoxus L. in Co. Dublin’, ibid., 18 (3), 1974, p.95. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FARMER, Austin | There are Coleoptera collected by Farmer in Kent in 1889 in the C.G.Hall collection at Oldham Museum (Information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FARMER, J.C. | Published ‘Two Curculios; a Grub injurious to Oats’ in Magazine of Natural History, 3, 1830, p.477, and ‘On the ravages of Insects upon Barley and Turnips’, ibid., 8, 1935, pp.171-179. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FARQUHARSON, C.O. | d. 1918 | Smith,A.Z.(1986) p.18, records that insects collected by Farquharson in southern Nigeria from 1914-1918 are in the HDO. The NHM acquired from him 3 Coleoptera bred from larvae found in a fungus in Lagos (1918.32). Farquharson's observations and collections are fully described in Trans.ESL., 1921, pp.319-531. He died in the sinking of the Burutu. (MD 12/02) | |
| FARR, H. | Gave a collection of foreign Coleoptera and Lepidoptera to the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1844 (photocopy in Accessions Register). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FARR, W.B. | Chalmers-Hunt (1976) records that a collection of Indian insects made by Farr, which presumably included Coleoptera, was sold after his death through Stevens on 20 June 1893. (MD 12/02) |