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| BARROW, H.J. | Arrow, J.G., Rutelinae, Desmonycinae, Euchirinae, FBI, 1917, records that he collected Rutelinae at Kasauli in the Punjab. (MD 9/01) |
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| BARROW, W. Hubert | A Leicester based taxidermist and dealer. Should not be confused with William H. Barrow the Leicestershire Coleopterist (see below). Listed in Hancock & Pettitt (1979) as a dealer. Several hundred insects collected by him in 1960, mainly from Europe but especially from Hyeres, in France, are in Liverpool Museum. Manuscript material relating to this collection was promised but never sent. (MD 9/01, 11/09) |
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| BARROW, William H. | c.1857 – after Aug 1945 | A doctor and teacher of music who lived in Leicestershire. Lott (2009), 27, notes that he first appears in the reports of the entomology section of the Leicestershire Literary and Philosophical Society in 1902 when he ‘gave a fine exhibition of microscope slides illustrating various points in the anatomy of the order Coleoptera’ and remained active in the county until 1945. He was acquainted with the father of W. Hunt, a Barnstable Coleopterist who was also a music teacher, and with S.O. Taylor, the Leicester Coleopterist and organ builder. On Barrow’s collection see TAYLOR, S.O. (MD 11/09) |