Published ‘Dytiscus marginalis’ in Zool., 3, 1845, p.1156. (MD 11/04)

Gave and sold insects to the HDO including a collection of Coleoptera from British East Africa and Ecuador (c.80 specimens given in 1903) and other Coleoptera illustrating mimicry (sold 1913) (Smith (1986) p.145). There is an obituary in Ent., 90, 1951, p.108. (MD 11/04)

Edward Donovan (1792) records a Mr Rope as the first discoverer of Curculio didymus. (MD 11/04)

Published ‘On the Glow Worm’ in Philos. Mag., 58, 1821, p.53. (MD 11/04)

The HDO purchased Coleoptera collected by Rogers in Angola from W.C.Hewitson for 17s 6d in October 1873 (Smith (1986), pp. 144-45). (MD 11/04)

In his Presidential Address to the Lincolnshire Naturalists Union in 1955, E.C.Riggall (see above) mentions Roebuck as an economic entomologist who contributed ‘extensive records of beetles found on land broken for agricultural purposes’ to the Lincolnshire list. (MD 11/04)

Entomologist at the Agricultural College at Sutton Bonington, Leicestershire, who is mentioned by Lott (2009) as a collector of beetles in the county between 1938-1944. He was a member of the biology section of the Leicestershire Literary and Philosophical Society and published two notes in the EMM: ‘Beetles in a church’, 74, 1938, p.209 and ‘Some notes on Cryptohynus quadripustulatus F. on grass fields in the Midlands’ 81, 1945, p.8 with L.Broadbent). of beetles found on land broken for agricultural purposes' to the Lincolnshire list.

Leicestershire naturalist who published records of 40 water beetles in Midland Naturalist, 2, 1879, pp.57-60. ‘Hunting the beetles, under the invigorating influences of fresh air and sunshine’ wrote Robson, ‘was all pleasure.’ Though he found the Haliplids difficult when ‘the real work began when I got home’. In the first issue of the same journal F.T. Mott in an article on Artisan Naturalists (1, 1878, pp. 310-311) described Robson as ‘a Leicester stocking-maker...who has found means for self-cultivation while bringing up a large family on the earnings of his frame.

I assume that this is the Robinson referred to by Fowler (1912) as taking Neocollyris species in Bukit, Besar, Nawngchik and Malaya. There is an obituary in J.fed. Malay St,. Mus., 16, 1930, pp.1-12, including a bibliography, which I have not seen. (MD 11/04)

Little seems to be known about Robinson who was one of the foremost entomological illustrators of his day and whose steel engravings in Trans. SL; Ent. Ann.; J. Linn Soc., Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., etc. included many beetles. [There are some original Lepidoptera drawings by him in the NHM]. There is an obituary in EMM.,14, 1877, pp.118-119. (MD 11/04)