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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| FOWLES, Adrian P. | Worked for the Countryside Council for Wales. Published 'A provisional key to the weevils of the genus Hypera (Germar) (Curculionidae) recorded from Britain', Col., 3(1), 1994, 15-21. (MD 1/22) |
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| FOX - WILSON, G. | Botanist who worked at Kew and later at Wisley. Published a number of notes on Coleoptera in the EMM., in 1923 and 1925 including ‘Otiorrhynchus rugifrons and O. sulcatus as pests of Alpine plants’ (59, 1923, pp.38-39) and Melandrya caraboides larvae attacking plum trees' (59, 1923, pp.199-200). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FOX, Frederick | Published several notes on Scymnus pulchellus which he found abundantly in Suffolk in the mid 1890s. (EMM., 31, 1895, pp.75 and 174; Naturalists Journal, 3, p.20; Science Gossip, 1, 1894, p.116). Mentioned by Morley, C. (1899). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FOX, G.T. | A Reverend. Gave 79 beetles and other insects to the NHM in 1911 (1911-143). (MD 12/02) | ||
| FOX, J. | Listed in the Ent.Ann., 1860, p.15, as interested in British Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. His address is given as Rawson Street, New Basford, nr. Nottingham. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FOX, J. Leedes | See FOX, William Leeds. | ||
| FOX, J.H. | Published ‘Water Beetles’ in Science Gossip, 1886/7, p.183. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FOX, Kenneth John | 1936 - 1 February 1986 | Born in Catford and educated at Cambridge University and Charing Cross Hospital where he graduated in medicine in 1961. He married Margaret Bull, a New Zealander, in London, and then moved to Manaia, Taranaki, New Zealand in 1963 where he quickly established his practice. Fox is best known in New Zealand as a Lepidopterist but he did become interested in Coleoptera later in life and did extensive collecting particularly in the Taranaki (then Mount Egmont) National Park. There is an obituary in New Zealand Entomologist, 10, 1987, p.154 (I am grateful to Eric Gowing Scopes for bringing this to my attention). (MD 12/02) | |
| FOX, Miss M. | Smith,A.Z.(1986) p.120 records that she gave insects of various groups from Pa-Ta-Ch'u, Western Hills, 12 miles W. of Peking to the HDO in 1926. (MD 12/02) | ||
| FOX, William Leed(e)s | Recorded in Ent.Ann., 1860, p.15 as being interested in Coleoptera and living at Harleston in Norfolk. He gave six beetles to the NHM in 1861 (1861.130) and is presumably the J. Leedes Fox recorded in Hagen,H.(1862) p.246, as publishing ‘A list of the rares [sic] species of Coleoptera which occur, or have been taken in the neighbourhood of Harleston, Norfolk and in the neighbourhood of Bungary [sic] by W. Garness [sic]’ in Naturalist, 8, 1858, pp.16-18, 87-89, 160-161. (MD 12/02) |