Added two beetles to the British list Epuraea distincta (Grimmer) which he took on the Gower Peninsular when collecting with G.W. Nicholson and Le B. Tomlin (Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 1919, 55: 128-9) and Tachys micros (Fisch) which he took on the coast near Charmouth in Dorset again with G.W. Nicholson (ibid. 1924, 60: 225). At this time he lived in London N.W.2. By the time he published his last note on Tapinotus sellatus (F) in Surrey (ibid. 1935, 71: 67) he had moved to Beech Hurst, Camberley, Surrey.

Listed by Sharp (1908:13) as among those 'students and collectors of the Coleoptera, belonging perhaps to a somewhat different social order (ie. not artisans) who have now passed away but to whose labours we owe much information and many records'. He also notes that Archer, who lived at Crosby, contributed a short note on the Coleoptera of the district to the 'Liverpool Naturalists Scrapbook', a manuscript volume having a limited and brief circulation among Liverpool naturalists, which was not printed.

The Natural History Museum purchased 293 beetles collected by Allen in Colombia in 1924. Is this perhaps the C. Allen whose name appears on Coleoptera in Doncaster Museum's general collection? (see William Allen). (MD 8/17, 9/22)

Mentioned by Morley (1899: iv) (MD 8/17, 9/22)

Educated at Downside and Imperial College, London before entering the scientific Civil Service as an analytical chemist. His contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the British Coleoptera was prodigious.

Published 'On the Hylobius abietis or fir weevil' in Transactions of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland, (1879, (4)11: 72-76). (MD 8/17, 9/22)

Published 'A specimen of  Bostrychoplites cornutus (Olivier) to survive in Britain' in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1969, 105:107). At that time she was attached to Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Surbiton, Surrey. She exchanged 45 beetles from Tristan da Cunha with the Natural History Museum in 1967. (MD 8/17. 9/22)

Gave 37 beetles from Belgium to the Natural History Museum in 1965 and in the following year 1332 from Portugal collected with M. Bacchus. (MD 8/17, 9/22)

143 Coleoptera collected by Abraham from various localities were part of the Imperial Institute of Entomology gifts to the Natural History Museum in October 1920 and November 1922. (MD 8/17, 9/22)

            Although known primarily as an American entomologist Abbot was born in Bennet Street, St. James, London the eldest son of James Abbot and Ann Clousinger, before moving to North America in July 1773. Many biographies (28 listed in Gilbert 1977) record the important role he played there in the establishment of entomology as a serious science.