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LAMB, Charles George

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Worked in the Engineering Laboratory at Cambridge where he had clearly met David Sharp. Published 'A note on Rhizotrogus ochraceus' in EMM, 53, 1917, pp. 210-212, and Andrew Duff has pointed out to me that according to Fowler & Donisthorpe (1913, p.122) it was Lamb who first discovered Corticaria lambiana Sharp, 1910 (now in Corticarina) on an oak tree in the New Forest in August 1908, the species being named in his honour.

KLOET, George Sidney

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Joint author with W.D.Hincks of A Checklist of British Insects (1945). Not well known as a Coleopterist but Johnson (2004) p.12 records that he published many local records of beetles in the Transactions and Reports of the Manchester Entomological Society. Some 50 beetles collected by him are in the G.W.R.Bartindale collection at Manchester Museum. There are obituaries by E,J,Popham in North Western Naturalist, 1982, pp. 9-10, and R. Underwood, The Raven Entomological and Natural History Society, Fifty Years, 1946 to 1996, (1996) which I have not seen. (MD 11/09)

KLEMPERER, Hugh

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There are mounted Geotrupidae collected by Klemperer in Britain, S.Africa and Jamaica in the collection of Birmingham Natural History Society. Geoff Hancock tells me that he worked with Klemporer's niece Carol at Bolton Museum before she moved to Kendal Museum as a Curator and 'Due to our time working together in Bolton when her uncle Hugh Klemperer at Birmingham University died (1989) she recommended to the family to contact me about his collection. By this time I had also moved (in 1985) to Kelvingrove, Glasgow, and accepted the donation.

KIRBY, William Forsell

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Born in Leicester where his father was banker. Worked in the Museum at Dublin (1867-1879) and then, after Frederick Smith’s death, at the NHM (1879-1909). Primarily known as a Lepidopterist but as a curator he was inevitably brought into contact with Coleoptera on which he did do some work. He published an Elementary Text Book of Entomology (1885,1892) and Harvey et al (1996) p. 121 record that there is a loose leaf MS Bibliography of African Coleoptera (c.1890) in the NHM.

KIRBY, William

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Born in Witnesham Hall, Suffolk, the son of a solicitor. Educated at Ipswich Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1781. He became Rector of Barham, close to his family home, in 1782, and remained there throughout his life. For a full account of Kirby the reader is referred to J.Freeman’s Life, 1852 (pp.506) which includes a bibliography and portrait. This mentions that Kirby’s interest in insects was stimulated as a child by watching a ladybird on a window.

KIRBY, W. Egmont

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Son of W.F.Kirby (see above) and his wife (nee Kappel). Published several entomological books including Beetles, Butterflies, Moths and Other Insects and Insect Foes and Friends, 1898, and wrote an introduction to E.Hofmann, The Young Beetle-Collector’s Handbook, 1897. (MD 8/03)
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