There are Coleoptera in the general collection at Birmingham Museum bearing this name and numbered 50-29. (MD 12/04)

Gave various collections of insects from South America including Coleoptera to the HDO between 1900-1940 (Smith (1986) p.154). (MD 12/04)

‘Insects, especially Coleoptera’ from India, Ceylon and Java passed to the HDO via Westwood from Templeton in 1857. (Smith (1986) p.153). Corresponding Member ESL 1839-44. (MD 12/04)

Published ‘Some observations concerning glowworms’ in Philos.Trans.RSL 6, 1671, pp.2177, 3035-36. (MD 12/04)

‘Tegetmire’ is mentioned in the Janson diary at Cambridge eg. October 1869, and I presume this is W.B.Tegetmeier who was at one time Secretary of the Apiarian Society. FESL 1859-65. (MD 12/04)

See Virtue-Tebbs

An organ builder and restorer who lived in Leicester and started collecting beetles in 1903. He was friendly with W.H.Barrow (see above) for many years and was responsible for first inspiring a number of young coleopterists including Donald Tozer and Claude Henderson. He published a note on the discovery of Cis bilamellatus at Sherwood in EMM, 74, 1938, p.52. On Taylor’s collection Lott (2009) states ‘In the 1950s, the beetle collections at Leicester Museum were rearranged into one integrated collection.

Lived in Manchester, later moving to Buxton. He published the first of 21 notes and articles, ‘Coleoptera at Barmouth etc.’, in EMM.,4, 1869, p.210. Later articles included the capture of Cryptocephalus querceti at Sherwood, Otiorrhynchus morio at Lochinver and Meloe brevicollis in Miller’s Dale. There is an obituary by R.Standen in Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, 15(1), Aug-Sep.1922, pp.34-36, which I have not seen.

Johnson (2004) records a collection at Manchester of 2,440 specimens collected by Taylor which was accessioned in 1958. It includes Ptiliidae, Staphylinidae, Pselaphidae and Scydmaenidae and incorporates material from R.W.Lloyd. There are also Coleoptera bearing this name in the general collection at Birmingham Museum (numbered 2.2.61). There is an obituary of a John Taylor in ERJV., 32, 1920, p.194, but I am not sure if this is the same person. (MD 12/04)

Published ‘Carabus nitens [captured in Scotland]’ in Scott. Nat., 3, 1875, p.104. (MD 12/04)