This is the distinquished botanist, zoologist and geologist who was at one time Professor at King's College, London and the author of many important works. He is not recorded to have had an interest in entomology but he did give 422 Coleoptera from the Levant and Asia Minor to the NHM in 1843 (1843.85) and further beetles and other insects from the Isle of Paros in 1846 (1846.14). He also gave collections of Coleoptera made by a Mr Macgillivray in New South Wales, Madeira, etc., while on a voyage on HMS Rattlesnake, to the Museum in 1848 (1848.53). (MD 12/02)
Dates
12 February 1815 - 17 November 1854