HARRINGTON, H.G.
Presented many insects to the NHM in the 1840s including Coleoptera from Australia (1844/129) and from N. India and S. America (1845/66). (MD 3/03)
HARPER, W.
Published a list of the Beetles of British Guiana in Timehri, 2 (NS), 1889, pp.62-64. (MD 3/03)
HARPER, Dr
Specimens bearing this name are in the Hall collection at Oldham Museum (Information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 3/03)
HARPER, Dr
Sharon Reid at the Central Science Laboratory (DEFRA), York, informs me that there are specimens labelled Harper, which is presumably this Harper, in the F.Bates collection there (see BATES, F. and WILLIAMS, B.S.) (MD 10/03)
HARKER, James Allen
Published 'Contribution towards the history of the Coleoptera of the district [Perthshire]' in Proc. Perthshire Soc. nat. Sci., 1869-1870, pp.92-94, and 'Carabus nitens' in Scottish Naturalist, 1, 1871, p.20. He also wrote a note on 'The study of entomology', ibid., p.254. Gilbert (1977) notes obituaries in Science, 6, 1894, p.137 and Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., 1894-5, p.32, which I have not seen. (MD 3/03)
HARIRI, Gazi
Worked in the Entomology Department at Rothamsted Experimental Station. His particular interest was in agricultural entomology and the physiology of Coccinellidae. FRES from 1965
HARDY, John Ray
Born in Nether Hallam, Yorkshire, and moved to Manchester when still a child. He was for a time in charge of the Manchester Marine Aquarium, and after that Keeper of the Queen's Park Museum.
HARDY, James
Born at Bilsdean, East Lothian, on the Berwickshire border, the son of George and Elizabeth Hardy, farmers. In 1817 his parents moved a few miles away to Penmanshiel where James attended the village school. Later he moved to Sir Andrew Wood's Institution at Largo before going firstly to Edinburgh University and then to Glasgow University where he studied the natural sciences between 1837-39. He doesn't appear to have taken a degree at either, although he was subsequently awarded a doctorate by Edinburgh (in 1890) in recognition of his services to science.
HARDWICKE, Thomas
A Major General in the Army in India. Published a number of articles on insects including 'Description of a species of Meloe... found in all parts of Bengal, Behar and Oude, and possessing all the properties of the Spanish fly' in Asiatic Researches, 5, 1798, pp.213-217. Also published with J.E.Gray, Illustrations of Indian Zoology, 1830-1835. An article about this last by W.R. Dawson, together with some biographical notes on Hardwicke appeared in Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 3, 1946, pp.55-69.
HARDING, Henry
Coleoptera bearing this name collected in the Dover area of Kent in 1860 are in the Hall collection at Oldham Museum (information from Simon Hayhow). (MD 3/03)