Peter Hodge tells me that Standing was a subscriber to the Coleopterist from 11 March 1999 and purchased a complete set of both it and the Coleopterists Newsletter, but that nothing further is known about him. (MD 11/04)

Lecturer in Zoology at Glasgow University in 1931 when he published The Fabrician Types of Insects in the Hunterian Collection at Glasgow University. Coleoptera Part 1, CUP, 1931. Geoff Hancock tells me that he has not come across his name in any other connection. (MD 11/04)

Published ‘An account of the Scarabaeus galeatus pulsator or the Deathwatch’ in Philos. Trans. R. Soc.Lond. 33, 1724, pp.159-162. (MD 11/04)

Provided the illustrations for Spry and Shuckard, British Coleoptera Delineated consisting of figures of all the genera of British Beetles (1840, 1861). (See Shuckard, W.E.). (MD 11/04)

A Doctor. Gave 536 British insects of all orders to the RSM in 1895 (1895-87). (MD 11/04)

Lived in Devon at the time of his death and published 8 papers mainly on beetles in bird and animal nests. Also collected other orders. Johnson (2004, 2009) records that Spittle’s collection amounting to 1,000 specimens in 12 store boxes, mostly from Berkshire and the south, was accessioned by Manchester Museum in 1975. (MD 11/09)

The well-known joint author with William Kirby of the Introduction to Entomology (1815-26). Born in Hull but little else appears to be known about his early life except that at the age of ten he was in the care of a clergyman who taught him botany. His interest in entomology developed when he was 22. It was Spence who first suggested the Introduction to Kirby having started a correspondence with him in 1805. Such was his fame after the publication of the Introduction that he was elected FRS in 1834. Spence published some 20 notes on entomology of which six include beetles.

Conchologist brother of James, the well-known botanist. Published ‘An account of a new Scarabaeus, discovered by M.Neale and Observations on two other rare insects’ in Trans.ESL, 1, 1809, pp.246-47. (MD 11/04)

Harvey et. al. (1996) p. 194 record that he worked in the Pest Infestation Laboratory at Slough studying Bruchid taxonomy and, in later, years on the detection and control of Bruchids in various stored grains. A ms notebook in the NHM lists photographs of Bruchids by Schoenherr and Pic also in the NHM. (MD 11/04)

The ‘South Collection’ was given to Birmingham Museum by Bethune Baker together with a ms catalogue. (I assume that this is not Richard South (1846-1932), the well-known Lepidopterist). (MD 11/04)