ColSoc is the Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland, dedicated to the study of beetles. Our aim is to further beetle research, standardise and promote recording, and to develop and encourage public awareness and conservation of the 4,000+ species of beetles found on these islands.
Images of the species included in the Staphylinidae Recording Scheme are shown below, where available.
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A professional natural history collector who collected many Coleoptera in New Guinea. the surrounding Islands, and the Solomon Islands. (see Peter Andrews ‘The Jansons, a family of entomologists’ on the Collector’s Secrets website.
Images of the species included in the Oil Beetle Recording Scheme are shown below, where available.
Well known Dipterist but his interest as a teenager was with ants which led to a meeting with Horace Donisthorpe and to his only publication to mention beetles 'Dorcus parallelipipedus (L.) and ant’s nest in the same tree’, in Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (1943, 79: 251).
Published The Natural History of the County of Stafford, 1844, which includes a list of beetles apparently collected by himself (307-313), Van Voorst, London. I am grateful to Tony Drane for producing an offprint for me). (MD 1/22)
Born in Ealing and educated at Pinner County school. Worked at the NHM from 1947 until retirement. He now lives in the Lake District.