Specimens from Halbert are in the H.Britten collection at Manchester. (MD 3/03)

Born in London the son of Frederick Haines, a solicitor and Shakespearian scholar, and educated at University College School and University College Hospital where he obtained his D.P.H. in 1899. Married Eva Mary Fenn, daughter of the well-known author George Manville Fenn and had four children. Assisted Dr Ling of Saxmundham, Suffolk for one year before setting up in practice for himself at Brentford, Middlesex and later at Winfrith, Dorset.

Gave Coleoptera from Ecuador to the NHM in 1894 (1894-70). He gave his address as Ditchingham House, Bungay. (MD 3/03)

Mentioned by Dawson (1854) p.158: 'I am indebted to Mr Hadfield for a fine series of varieties [of Stenolophus dorsalis] which he procured from a gravel pit on Stapleford Common near Newark, where he has taken them both in Spring and autumn, among grass and rushes'. (MD 3/03)

Little is know of Guyon who was related to a Hungarian General. He lived at both Richmond and Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, and published notes on entomology, particularly Coleoptera, for some thirty years from 1845. These included 'Tenacity of life in Curculionidae', Zoo., 3, 1845, 1145; Note on Lamia textr, ibid., 8, 1850, 2961; several notes on aberrant forms; 'Larvae of the glow worm', ibid., 20, 1862, 8180; and 'The Colorado Beetle', Sci. Gossip., 11, 1875, 142.

Collector of Diptera and Coleoptera who lived in 1951 in London. FRES from 1952 – before 2002. (MD 3/03)

Gave more than a hundred Coleoptera from Russia 'named by Mr Grey, St. Petersburgh' to the NHM on 6 June 1856. Perhaps this is the same Gutch who had earlier given 13 Coleoptera from Servia (1845/128) and 4 others (1847/47). (MD 1/03)

The Register in the Castle Museum, Norwich records that Gurney gave 200 British Coleoptera to the Museum in 1851 and 6 foreign examples in the following year. He was also involved in the Sparshall gift to the Museum in 1845. Perhaps this is the Joseph Gurney of Grove, Lakenham who subscribed for two copies of Denny (1825). (Daniel Gurney, Hudson Gurney, J.J.Gurney and Miss Gurney, all of different addresses, were also subscribers). (MD 1/03)

Lived at 2 Oaks Villa, Brockenhurst, Hampshire. Gave his insect collection including Coleoptera to the Birmingham Museum in 1914 (Accessions Book no 18. 10 August) Two years earlier he had presented 36 examples of British Coleoptera (4 July 1912. A note dated 1963 indicates that these were then included in the general collection). There is a specimen of Velleius dilatatus (F.) with a label bearing Gulliver's name and 'Brockenhurst.8.viii.94' in the B.S.Williams collection at Liverpool Museum. There is an obituary in Ent., 64, 1931, p.192. (MD 1/03)

Sharon Reid at the Central Science Laboratory (DEFRA), York, informs me that there are specimens collected by Gulliver in the F.Bates collection there (see BATES, F. and WILLIAMS, B.S.) (MD 10/03)