PATTERSON, Robert

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Irish zoologist who published four notes on beetles including ‘Note respecting the larvae of Blaps mortisaga’ in Trans.ESL, 2, 1838, pp.99-100, and ‘Coleoptera of the Hollywood District’ (with W.D.Donnan) in IN.,1, 1892, pp.103-04). A ‘List of Irish Coleoptera collected mainly by the late Robert Patterson, esq., FRS, in the year 1829’ was published as appendix to Proc. Belfast. Nat. Field Club, 2, 1885, 9(5), pp.317-326. There is an obituary in Nature, London, 5, 1872, p.332. (MD 9/04)
Dates
April 1802 – 14 February 1872