Well known expert on Chelsea porcelain and compiler of information about Country Houses. Bryant was an Assistant at the IIE and travelled extensively to most parts of the world amassing a large collection of Coleoptera (c.50,000 specimens) which was presented to the NHM. In 1908 he visited Australia where his travels were recorded by A.M. Lea, who described some of the beetles he collected. Bryant published 'New Species of Pselaphidae' in Ent.mon.Mag., 51, 1915, 297-302, and 'Notes on Synonymy in the Phytophaga' in Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist., 12, 1923, 130-147.

Published ‘Additions to Dr Power's list of Irish Coleoptera’ in Ent, 11, 1878, 94-95: ‘I can only speak of the district surrounding Glenarm, say within a radius of five miles. I have not zealously investigated this locality the Coleoptera only being a secondary consideration with me. When in search of Lepidoptera I have taken at different times over 200 species ...’. Brunton is referred to by Johnson & Halbert (1902), 543, 578. He lived at Glenarm Castle, Larne. (MD 12/01)

See A. Thornley ‘On some Coleoptera from the summit of Ben Nevis, collected by Mr W.S.Bruce’ in Ann. Scottish nat. Hist., Jan. 1896, 28-37. The Museum Register at the RSM records that a collection of 195 insects from the summit of Ben Nevis, was given by Bruce in 1896-7. (MD 12/01)

Duff (1993), 6, records that Browning ‘was apparently associated with the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, but he collected in Somerset (mainly near Axbridge) in 1940-41, 1943, 1949-50 and 1952, presumably during periodic visits or holidays. Browning lived in Kent and at one time was working at the Dept. of Biology, Kent College, Pembury. The whereabouts of Browning’s collection is not known to me, but may still exist. Some of Browning’s records, supposedly from ‘Cross, nr.

Listed in the Ent.Ann., 1860, as interested in Coleoptera. Garth Foster tells me that he was the grandfather of Prof. W.A.Balfour-Browne and that he was Queens Visitor in Lunacy and first Superintendent of the Crichton Institution, Dumfries. Mentioned (but not named) in British Water Beetles and Other Things, 1962, p.6. (MD 12/01)

Published 'Recently recorded Irish Coleoptera', in British Naturalist, 1, 1891, 113-115, and several notes in the Irish Naturalist in 1892 and 1893, including Helodes phellandrii new to the Dublin list, and Thiamis suturalis new to Ireland. (MD 12/01)

Listed in the Ent.Ann. in 1857 and 1860 as interested in British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His address is recorded as 1 Westbourne Street, Hyde Park Gardens, (London). (MD 12/01)

Harvey et al. (1996), 30, list a collection of typescripts, manuscripts, 300 letters, collecting locations, drawings, etc. related to wood boring beetles, in the NHM. (MD 1/22)