Published 'Obrium brunneum (Fab.) new to the British List' with P.Harwood, in EMM., 72, 1936, p.149. I have seen specimens collected by him in the E.C.Bedwell collection at the Castle Museum, Norwich, and in the general collection at Doncaster Museum (dated 1919). Hancock and Pettit (1981) record that Britten's collection at Manchester includes Cox specimens. Mackechnie Jarvis, (1976) p.109, notes that Cox's main collection was acquired by L.Christie.

Surprisingly little is known of Cox considering that his two volume A Handbook of the Coleoptera or Beetles of Great Britain and Ireland, 1874, was one of the most important publications on the British fauna to appear in the 19th century, and the first to use dichotomous keys for species identification which had earlier been used on the Continent (although Mackechnie Jarvis (1976) notes a key to Catops by Murray of 1856 on the dichotomous principle).

A Captain who lived in Canterbury. He published a number of articles on Scolytus destructor Oliv. between 1848 and 1859. He must have been one of the first entomologists to take up the photography of insects publishing 'Notes on the application of photography to insects' in Proc.ESL., 1863, pp.179-181. He also published a popular work Our Common Insects First Steps to Entomology, 1864. Cox was also interested in Lepidoptera, publishing notes on larvae, including one with J.O.Westwood in 1864.

Published a number of articles on Coleoptera in the early 1950s including 'Coleoptera from the Colchester district', EMM., 86, 1950, p.142; 'The pupation of Cionus scrophulariae L.', ibid., 87, 1951, p.271; and 'Attempts to breed Chrysolina menthastri Suff.', ibid., 88, 1952, p.94. He lived at this time at Edale, Ipswich Road, Colchester, Essex and was interested in Lepidoptera too, on which he also published notes. (MD 4/02)

Published 'An Australian beetle near London' in EMM., 10, 1873, p.83. (MD 4/02)

Born and died in Sussex but travelled extensively. He was of independent means. Primarily interested in Odonata and, later in life, Diptera, and his collections were given to the NHM. He collected beetles too, however, and there are specimens bearing his name in the Kauffmann collection of Cerambycidae at Manchester, and in Colin Johnson's collection of British weevils at the same institution. Harvey et al (1996) p.53 list manuscript material in the NHM.

Collected with Darwin as his servant, companion and ‘emanuensis’. See Fergusson, B.J., Syms Covington of Pambula, assistant to Charles Darwin on the voyage of the H.M.S.Beagle 1831-1836, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. Merimbula (Australia), 1988. (MD 4/02)

Murray (1853), p.vii, lists Coventry with John Syme, Professor Fleming and himself as having 'worked out Fife, Perth, Kinross and Clackmanan' for beetles. Murray also refers on several occasions to Coventry's collection. He lived at Shanwell. (MD 4/02)

Dawson (1854) p.39 mentions that Carabus auratus L. 'has also been found at Lough Bray in Ireland by Mr Coulter'. (MD 4/02)

A.E.Gardner in James (1973) p.76 mentions that Coulson was curator of the BENHS collections for eleven years until his resignation in 1954. His main loves were Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hemiptera, ‘but he had a wide knowledge of all groups and his enthusiasm and kindness especially to beginners endeared him to all. I had special reasons to be grateful for his help and encouragement’.