Published with D.A.Humphries a note on 'Leptinus testaceus Mull. found on mammals' in EMM., 94, 1958, p.237, and with Colin Welch 'Records of Coleoptera from the Cairngorms', ibid., 107, 1971, p.202. Subsequently he joined Dundee University's expedition to North East Greenland and published a record of the insects found, ibid., 113, 1977, pp.213-217. He is recorded at different times at King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Department of Biology, Sunderland Polytechnic, and Churchtown Farm Field Studies Centre, Bodmin. (MD 4/02)

Gave 233 Coleoptera from Lake Nyassa to the RSM in 1878 (1878:46). He lived at 10 North Manor Place, Edinburgh. (MD 4/02)

Worked for 45 years as an agricultural entomologist. Went to the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1920 and also travelled to other countries including Nigeria and Afghanistan, as an advisor on agriculture. Harvey et. al. (1996) p.52 record that there is an unpublished manuscript: Handbook of Insect Pests of the Gold Coast with Notes on Treatment, including original drawings, in the NHM. (MD 4/02)

As a young man Cottam is recorded to have been an ardent student of botany, astronomy and microscopy. His career was spent in the Civil Service in the Office of Woods and Forests, from which he retired in 1905. He was married and had one son, who pre-deceased him, and a daughter. In January 1875 he was one of the founder members of the Watford Natural History Society, later titled the Hertfordshire Natural History Socierty, and its first Treasurer.

I am grateful to Andrew Duff for pointing out the Wikipedi entry on Cott from which the following is extracted: British zoologist, an authority on both natural and military camouflage, and a scientific illustrator and photographer. Many of his field studies took place in Africa, where he was especially interested in the Nile crocodile. Cott was born in Leicestershire. In 1919, he graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Between 1922 and 1925, he studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge .

Published 'On Coleoptera or Beetles' in Report of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, 6, 1874, pp.23-25. (MD 4/02)

Fowler (1912) mentions that Cornwallis collected Neocollyris species in the Andaman Islands. (MD 4/02)

Davis and Brewer (1986) pp.45-46 record that Corder gave a collection of 600 Coleoptera from Brazil to Sunderland Museum on 1 March 1898. ‘The specimens were most likely amalgamated with the Earl of Durham Collection & are probably so labelled’. (MD 4/02)

Davis and Brewer (1986) p.45 record that Corder donated a collection of 600 Coleoptera (worldwide) to Sunderland Museum in 1898. Lepidoptera and birds’ eggs collected by him are also in the Museum. (MD 4/02)

Born at Besses o'th'Barn, Lancashire, the son of an architect. His father was keen that he should follow the same career but he took up medicine instead, studying at Owen's College, Manchester. After graduating he worked for different periods in Cheadle, Liverpool, and Bolton before moving to Doncaster in 1888/9. Corbett had considerable ability and knowledge in a wide range of fields from music to geology, and is also recorded to have had the power of simultaneous, independent ambidexterity.