Published a ‘Systematic list of the Coleoptera found in the vicinity of Alverstoke, South Hants.’ in Zoologist (1856-58:14-16). Immediately after he seems to have travelled to the Far East, notes about the beetles he found there being published in Zoologist. in 1860, 1861 and 1863, and in Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1861. Nissen (1969) lists him as the Editor of The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Samarang under the Command of Capt. Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843-46, (1848-), 1850, which includes 106 plates of insects, and as a contributor to G.B. Sowerby, Thesaurus Conchyliorum, (1842: 1847-87). In 1870 he published a book entitled Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria. Listed in Entomologist's Annual (1860), at Brook Cottage, Alverstoke, Hants., together with his wife who is also recorded to have an interest in British beetles.
There are Coleoptera collected by him in the Rippon Collection, National Museum of Wales. (Information from A.H.Kirk-Spriggs). (MD 7.01, 9/22)