Well known Horticulturalist, Lepidopterist and Hymenopterist who lived at Reigate and was President and Vice President of the ESL on many occasions. The HDO acquired 138 Coleoptera from him via F.Walker by purchase in November 1868 for £2-5s 10d; 15 Coleoptera from Brecknock Harbour, W. Australia in January 1869 for 18s and Exotic Coleoptera (which included a few Wallace specimens) in September 1874 for £3 (Smith (1986) pp.147-48). Pedersen (2002) pp.46, 55 records that there are drawings of insects by Saunders in the Templeton’s scrapbook in the RESL together with correspondence with A.H.Haliday dated 18 February 1863. (MD 11/04, 11/09)
Dates
4 June 1809 – 13 September 1879