The following is taken from Atty (1983), iii-iv: 'An antiquary who lived in Wotton-under-Edge for most of his life and collected local insects of many groups, but after 1875 especially Hymenoptera. He compiled a manuscript list of the Glos. beetles for the Victoria County History, submitted to them in January 1903 but never published. I have a copy of this, made by R.S.George. In Bristol City Museum are some eight preliminary notebooks with beetle records, four of which are apparently a rougher draft of the others: I have copied all these. Perkins lists his main contributors as Messers Hudd, Harding and Bartlett of Clifton; H.S.Charbonnier of Kingsdown; Merrin, Lifton and Rev. G.M.Smith of Gloucester; James Edwards of Colesbourne; Watkins of Painswick; J.C.R.Hutchings of Wotton; and the 'long lists' of the Rev. A.E.C.Hodgson from Coleford and of the late Sir William Guise of Elmore Court... Perkins merely gives the species, the contributor's name and a place without dates, numbers or comments. Sometimes he quotes the address of the contributor not of the beetle - "Colesbourne, Edwards" whereas the species was taken on a visit to Coombe Hill canal. Other records, particularly Harding's for Bristol, are merely repeats of old records in Stephens...' (MD 8/17)