Made two gifts each of 4 Coleoptera and other insects collected from tea plants in Assam to the NHM in 1906 and 1928 (1906.60 and 1928.149). (MD 12/02)

A Commander in the Marines. Gave 38 Coleoptera and other insects collected in Cameroon to the NHM in 1919 (1919.327). (MD 12/02)

Gave 70 Coleoptera and other insects collected by P.H.Gosse jnr. (relative of Edmund?) in Argentina, and a further 12 Coleoptera and other insects collected by himself in La Plata to the NHM in 1899 (1899.124 and 1899.323). (MD 12/02)

Gave 4 Coleoptera from Venezuela and many other insects to the NHM in 1934 (1934.593). (MD 12/02)

Best known as a Lepidopterist; for his work on parasitic Hymenoptera much of which was carried out in collaboration with J.B.Bridgman; and for the number of obituaries which he wrote of his fellow entomologists. His publications also included one or two notes on Coleoptera including ‘Granary weevils Sitophilus granarius and S.oryzae’, (Ent., 12, 1879, pp.41-50 and 298, and ‘The Blue Beetlein Essex’, (ibid., 17, 1884, p.212). Gilbert,P. (1977) lists 4 obituary notices. (MD 12/02)

Worked as an entomologist at the Forest Products Research Laboratory at Princes Risborough in the 1920s to 1940s when he published a number of articles on Coleoptera. These included ‘Aulonium trisulcatum Geoff. in Richmond Park’ (EMM., 69, 1933, p.90); ‘On the occurrence of Lyctus brunneus Steph. in Great Britain’, (ibid., 71, 1935, p.42); ‘The habitat of Anoncodes melanura (L.)’, (ibid., 72, 1936, pp.41-42); and ‘A note on Paratillus carus (Newman) and records of its occurrence in Britain’ (ibid., 80, 1944, pp.132-134).

Ryan et. al. (1984) p.62 note that Fisher published ‘Marine beetle at Greenisland, Co. Antrim’ and ‘Aepus and Lipura at Greenisland: a further note’ in INJ., 5, 1935, p.310 and 6, 1936, p.24. (MD 12/02)

Published ‘Destructive economy of Meligethes in Ent., 2, 1864, p.40. (MD 12/02)

Gilbert, P. (1977) gives his birth date as 1931 but this must be incorrect. Worked in the Museums at Maidstone, Leeds and, at the time of his death, the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. FRES from 1938, and his brief obituary in Proc.RESL., 23(C), 1958-59, 7, mentions that he was interested in Coleoptera and Hemiptera. FRES from 1938. (MD 3/03)

While working as Deputy Conservator of Forests in S. India in 1911 he gave 4 Coleoptera from Coimbatore to the NHM (1911-351). (MD 12/02)