GIBBS, A.E.

Mainly a Lepidoperist but he also collected beetles. He lived in St. Albans and most of his entomological work appears to have been done in Hertfordshire. According to The Natural History of the Hitchin Region edited by Reginald Hine, 1934, p.141, Gibbs prepared the list of 1,523 species which appears in the VCH. His only other publications on beetles appear to have been several articles in the Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society including 'Coleoptera new to Hertfordshire' (12, 1905, p.156). Many specimens taken by Gibbs are in the collection at St. Albans Museum (Information from Trevor James). There is an obituary, which includes a list of papers, in Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, 17, 1919, which I have not seen. (MD 1/03)