Gave 6 Coleaptera which he had collected in Egypt to the NHM in 1891 (91.24). His address is recorded as the Savile Club, Piccadilly. (MD 9/02)

Gave 108 Coleoptera and other insects collected in Java to the NHM in 1934-37 (1934.264, 1937.662). (MD 9/02)

Gave 31 Coleoptera from Egypt to the NHM in 1904-05 (1904.241 and 1905.151). (MD 9/02)

Gave 80 Coleoptera from British Somaliland to the NHM between 1908-11 (1908.176 and 1911.172). (MD 9/02)

Gave a collection of insects including 15 Coleoptera made in Lapland as a member of the Senior Public Schools Expedition to NHM in 1936 (1936.770). (MD 9/02)

Mentioned in O.Janson's MS diary in the Cambridge Museum in May 1875. (MD 9/02)

See WELD-DOWNING, A.K.

Published three articles on insects in Trans.SLENHS between 1934 and 1936. By 1945 he seems to have been attached to the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow for he is recorded to have collected 73 Coleoptera 'some of which may be co-types' on Christmas island which the Department gave to the NHM (1946.93). This is presumably the same Downes who collected the 36 Coleoptera 'including 11 types from the Bishop Coll' which the Department gave to the Museum in the preceding year (1945.98). (MD 9/02)

A Doctor. Gave a species of Tillus to the NHM through S. Baly in 1861 (61.15) and a further 15 beetles from Bombay in the following year (62.46). (MD 9/02)

A Captain. Fowler and Arrow in their FBI volumes, 1912 and 1917, note that he collected Paussidae and Rutelinae at Bombay. Could this be the 'Commander Downes' after whom W. Hope named Lucanus downesii perhaps ('Characters and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species of Coleopterous Insects', Trans.ZSL., 1, 1833, p.99)? The same paper also refers to Captain Downes as the author of Prionus hayesii in a MSS (104), which at that time was the largest beetle known. (MD 9/02)