Not British and strictly speaking therefore should not be included, but deserves mention because his collection in Liverpool Museum is one of the oldest intact collections of beetles in the country. It contains about 6,000 specimens collected in Southern Europe c.1825-1849 and is housed in what appears to be a home-made cabinet of twenty two drawers. The material is not British but does include types. According to correspondence in the Liverpool Museum with the Museum of Natural History in Geneva, Chevrier lived on Lake Geneva and sold the collection to the Liverpool Institution in 1849. It then passed to Bootle and Southport before being exchanged by the latter for 300 specimens in 1979. The Collection is accompanied by a manuscript catalogue including a list of collectors (mentions F. Hope and W. Spence). (I am grateful to Ian Wallace for information) (MD 3/02)
Dates
1801-1884