YOUNG, Morris

Little is recorded about his early history but he was for many years a school master at Paisley, until being appointed Curator of the Paisley Museum when it opened in 1870.. The first of the few short notes he published was devoted to Lepidoptera but it was as a Coleopterist that he was best known and in particular for his addition of several species to the British list including Silvanus bidentatus (EMM., 2, 1865, p.181, found under pine bark near Paisley and det. for him by David Sharp). His collection of both insects and books was acquired by the Paisley Museum to which he also bequeathed £500 on the understanding that the interest would be used to extend the entomological collections. Richard Weddle tells me that he has recently seen the collection (January 2007) and ‘It is still apparently intact, but in the original cases, and in need of some conservation.’ There is a printed list of Staphylinidae marked up by Young in the RESL library I have a copy of a printed list of Staphylinidae marked up by him, which was given to me by Eric Gowing-Scopes. FESL from 1886. There is an obituary in EMM., 33, 1897, p.283. (MD 12/04)