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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| FERRAR | This name appears on Coleoptera in the collection of the Pusa Institute at Delhi. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FERRY, R.S. | d. March 1983 | Listed as a member of the AES from 1974 with interests in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His address is given as 24 Digswell Road, Welwyn, Hertfordshire. He was especially interested in Cerambycidae and part of his collection is incorporated in that of the N. Herts. Museums. Another part, including some notebooks, is with the Welwyn-Hatfield Museum Service, but much material is reported to be missing. (Information from Trevor James). (MD 12/02) | |
| FFINCH | Gave 28 Coleoptera and other insects from Persia to the NHM when he was working at the India Office (1894.14, 1894.180 and 1895.127). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FIDLER, J.H. | A Doctor. Published ‘Biological observations on various Chrysomelidae’ in EMM., 85, 1949, p.145, which showed that he had made a detailed study of Galerucella at Askham Bog, and ‘A note on Nacerdes melanura’, ibid., p.151. He lived in York. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FINCH, A. | Listed as a subscriber to the Coleopterists Newsletter in 1981 (MD 1/22) |
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| FINCHER, F. | Published ‘A note on Galerucella viburni’ in EMM., 83, 1947, p.129; ‘Lasiorhynchites opthalmicus Steph. in Worcestershire’, ibid., p.153, and ‘Cantharis rustica Fallen and its prey’, ibid., 89, 1951, p.19. He lived in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and also published on Lepidoptera and Hemiptera. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FIRTH, Michael | b. 18 October 1938 | Worked with timber beetles and lived in Kippax, Leeds, Yorkshire. FRES from 1961. (MD 3/03) | |
| FISCHER, Cecil E.C. | While working as Deputy Conservator of Forests in S. India in 1911 he gave 4 Coleoptera from Coimbatore to the NHM (1911-351). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FISHER, Cyril Edmund | 8 October 1912 - 12 November 1958 | Gilbert, P. (1977) gives his birth date as 1931 but this must be incorrect. Worked in the Museums at Maidstone, Leeds and, at the time of his death, the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. FRES from 1938, and his brief obituary in Proc.RESL., 23(C), 1958-59, 7, mentions that he was interested in Coleoptera and Hemiptera. FRES from 1938. (MD 3/03) | |
| FISHER, Marshall | Published ‘Destructive economy of Meligethes in Ent., 2, 1864, p.40. (MD 12/02) |