Biographical dictionary
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| Name | Dates | Biography | |
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| GREAVES, Cyril A. | Published a note on Coccinelidae in Scientific Gossip, 10, 1874, p.140. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GREEN, D. | Mentioned by Marsham (1802) p.39 as the captor of Scarabaeus varius ‘in campis apertis sussexiae’. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GREEN, Edward Ernest | 20 February 1861 - 2 July 1949 | Born in Ceylon where his father, John Philip Green, was a planter. Educated in England but returned to Ceylon at the age of nineteen to assist in the management of his father's estate. He soon became interested in Coccids and other pests, and in 1897 was appointed Honorary Entomologist to the Ceylon Government. Two years later he was appointed Government Entomologist, a position he held until 1913 when he retired to the the UK after suffering from malaria. Green is best known as a world authority on the Coccidae, but it is clear from volumes in the FBI series, and from his many publications on insect pests, that he also collected and was familiar with the Coleoptera. FRES from 1891, President 1923-24, Vice-President 1915, 1925. There are obituaries in EMM., 85, 1949, pp.215-216; Nature, 164, 1949, p.398, and Proc.RESL., 14(C), 1949-50, p.64. (MD 1/03) | |
| GREEN, H.P. | Mentioned by Arrow (1917) as collecting Rutelinae at Colombo. (MD 1/03) | ||
| GREEN, James | Attached to the Zoology Department at Bedford College, London in 1952 where he worked on the Ecology of Coleoptera. FRES from 1952. (MD 3/03) | ||
| GREENE, Joseph | 1804-1926 | Well known Lepidopterist. His volume The insect Hunter's Companion, which ran to three editions, does include a chapter on Coleoptera. Interestingly he advocates pinning through the left elytron which may account for insects mounted in this way in collections. (MD 1/03) | |
| GREENING, Linnaeus | 1855-1927 | Hancock and Pettit (1981) mention that Greening was a Curator of Warrington Museum and donated to it various natural history collections including insects and spiders. (MD 1/03) | |
| GREENSLADE, Ralph Michael | 14 September 1908 – 24 February 1975 | Well known economic entomologist who worked with A.M.Massee at East Malling Research Station for ten years on biology and control of apple blossom weevil and of woolly aphid. In 1942 he joined W.E.Ripper in Pest Control Ltd and was involved in the earliest formulations of DDT. He subsequently became a manager and much involved in translation from French, German, Dutch and Russian. As a result of illness he went part time in 1967 before retiring early in 1969. Throughout his working life he maintained an interest in British Hemiptera and Coleoptera as a hobby. Greenslade’s collections were bequeathed to John Heath (Monks Wood) and his books were sold. There is an obituary in Proc.RESL., 40, 1975-76, p.51. FRES from 1936. Council 1946-1948. (MD 3/03) | |
| GREENWOOD, Malcolm | Gave a small collection of beetles from Brightlingsea which had visited for some years in the late 1990s to the Colchester Natural History Museum. The insects were collected from 'saltmarsh and adjacent habitats and for the most part unidentified' (Information from Peter Harvey via Peter Hodge, 9/12) (MD 1/22) |
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| GREGORY | A Captain. His name and the date 1907 appears on Coleoptera in the Pusa Institute at Delhi. (MD 1/03) |