A Colonel who spent much of his working life as a Government official in Nigeria. He was particularly interested in the Scolytidae and published on them from 1911 in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.. He was at work on a Scolytid volume for the FBI series at the time of his death. His burial, ‘impressively’ at sea, was recorded in the national press. Sampson’s collection included that of W.F.H Blandford, the author of the Scolytid volume of the Biologia Central-Americana series, and was bequeathed together with his slide collection (mostly of beetles) and library to the NHM(1926-428). The collection is accompanied by a loose-leaf file Catalogue of Platypodidae and also a catalogue of the slides (1926-48) (Harvey et.al. (1996 ) p.184). FELS from 1906. There is an obituary in EMM., 63, 1927, p.16. and Gilbert (1977) p.331 mentions an account in The Daily Mail, 24 November 1926. (MD 11/04)
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1853 -16 November 1926