Published Coleoptera records from the Glasgow area in Scot. Nat., 1921, pp.25-26. His collection from this area, in 3 small cabinets (amounting to approx 23 drawers) was donated to the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, in May 1937 (where other insects collected by him are also housed). Other Coleoptera bearing his name are in the general collection at Doncaster (some dated 1910). These include Typhaeus from Richmond Park and other species from Hammersmith.

This name appear on det. labels in the amalgamated general collection at Manchester. There are also specimens in the Bryce collection at Sheffield (information from Steve Garland). (MD 2/04)

Gave 4 boxes of Coleoptera (and other boxes of other insects) from various localities to Glasgow Museum in 1958 (1958-4). (MD 2/04)

Birmingham Museum, Accessions Book 19, 24 Jan 1955 mentions that H. Willoughby Ellis gave beetles from Crowthorne for the ‘Munro’ exhibit. (MD 2/04)

Worked in the Zoology Department at Cambridge where he specialised in the ecology of Coleoptera. Gave Carabidae from Wicken Fen to the Museum in January 1965 (Insect Department Register). FRES from 1951. (MD 2/04)

Born at Clapham the fourth child of Joseph A. Muir who held a post in Egypt and died at Alexandria in 1886. Frederick then had to leave school and joined the Eastern Telegraph Company subsequently being stationed in Aden, Mozambique, Lorenzo, Marques and Durban. At all these stations he collected insects in which he had been interested since childhood. While at Aden Muir met David Sharp whose daughter Ann he subsequently married.

Lived in Warrington in the early 1900s. General entomologist. His collection in Llandudno Museum, which mostly covers the period 1896-1913 and includes c.1200 specimens in 24 cases and drawers, contains worldwide Coleoptera (N. Africa, India, Japan and China). A second collection in 11 boxes in Penrhyn Castle also includes beetles, some foreign (West Africa, Australia, etc.) (Fenscore). (MD 2/04)

Gave 910 British beetles to Keighley Museum in 1905 (Acc. No. 102:1910) (Fenscore). Represented in the Hall collection at Oldham (information from Simon Hayhow) and in H.W.Ellis’ foreign beetle collection in Liverpool Museum. Mosley was a well known Coleopterist in his day but I have not been able to trace any obituary notices or other accounts of him. (MD 2/04)

A Reverend who is well known for his important popular works on birds and butterflies in particular. Wrote ‘Setting of Coleoptera’ in Weekly Entomologist, 1, 1862, p.4. and a Catalogue of British Insects (on this last see MacKechnie Jarvis (1975) p.107). (MD 2/04)

There is a collection in the Booth Museum at Brighton bearing this name (Information from Peter Hodge). (MD 2/04)