Biographical dictionary
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| C., G.M. | These initials appear on specimens in the Pusa Institute, Delhi. (MD 1/O2) | ||
| BYERLEY, B.J.L. |
Listed as a member of the AES in 1947 and 1962. The first record states that he was interested in beetles only and the second that he was interested in Diptera and general entomology. His addresses are given as 48 Elmgrove Road, and 3 Courtfield Crescent, Harrow, Middlesex. I am grateful to Trevor James for pointing out to me that Byerley is mentioned in G.T. Gimingham 'Notes on the list of Hertfordshire Coleoptera...', Trans.Herts.Nat.Hist.Soc., 24, 1955, 136-145. (MD 12/01) |
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| BYDDER |
Mentioned by Stephens (1828), 107, as 'a very active collector'. Perhaps this is the same Bydder to whom William Bond refers as 'my old friend and instructor in entomology' (Ent.Mag. 1, 1833, 212). He is known to have collected in the New Forest. (MD 12/01) |
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| BUXTON | Ashley Kirk-Spriggs tells me that there are beetles collected by Buxton in the Rippon Collection, NMW. Is this Patrick Alfred Buxton, perhaps (1892-1955) the well known Medical entomologist who worked on the tsetse fly? (MD 12/01) | ||
| BUTTON, D.T. |
Listed in the Ent.Ann., 1860 as interested in British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His address is given as Harwood Place, corner of Rye Lane, Peckham. (MD 12/01) |
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| BUTTERWICK | G.J.Arrow records in FBI Lamellicornia, Rutelinae, etc., 1917, that Butterwick collected Adoretus costopilosus at Dehra Dun in the United Provinces. (MD 12/01) | ||
| BUTLER, Edward Albert | 17 March 1845-20 November 1925 |
Primarily interested in Hymenoptera and Hemiptera but did publish several notes about beetles, eg.'Otiorhynchus sulcatus destructive to ferns', Ent.mon.Mag., 27, 1891, 223; 'Lebia crux-minor at Gomshall', ibid, 28, 1892, 267-68, and several notes on beetles in wasps' and hornets' nests. Trevor James informs me that there are many specimens collected by Butler in the collections of North Hertfordshire Museums at Baldock, and Michael Taylor that there are further specimens collected by Butler in the Museum at Perth. Hydradephaga in the Manchester Museum bearing the initials E.A.B. were presumably taken by him. Mentioned in a letter from E.C. Bedwell to Dr Allan, 3 December 1941, in a folder in Liverpool Museum of material relating to the B.S.Williams Collection: 'I took on the disposal of the libraries of E.A. Butler, Easbery (?) and Stott as they were personal friends...'. John Owen tells me that he determined Myrmecoptera brevipes new to Scotland. He is mentioned by Morley (1899), 6. Tony Irwin informs me that there is a large collection of foreign Coleoptera and Hemiptera at Norwich Museum which came with the Bedwell collection. It includes specimens from T.V. Campbell; FB (Frederick Bates?); G.C.B.; Dr Boutarel; G.H. Burn; H. de Busson; Dr [Malcolm] Cameron; G.C. Champion; Elliott; G. Guyon; Harry Johnson; F. Morey; F. Muir; S.A. eave; R.M.W.; Rev. T.A.M.; H.H. Smith; F.M. hompson; B.Tomlin; and T.V. Wollaston. and that is one drawer only! Tony assumes that Butler ‘accepted’ much of this material from the NHM, ‘Certainly a lot of the specimens appear to have typical NHM labels and accession numbers.’ There are obituaries in Ent., 59, 1926, 24; Ent.News, 37, 1926, 126. and by W.E. China in Ent.mon.Mag., 62, 1926, 24,(including portrait). (MD 10/03,1/22) |
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| BURRELL, John |
At one time was Rector of Letteringsett in Norfolk. Published the first substantial local list of British Coleoptera: 'A Catalogue of Insects found in Norfolk' in Trans.Ent.Soc., 1806,1807,1809 and 1812, 101-240. The list included 807 species listed in Marsham (1802) and 39 others new to Britain. Burrell also published a note on Lygeus micropterus in Transactions of the Aurelian Society, 1, 1807, 73-74. He was a subscriber to Denny (1825) and according to a typescript in Norwich Museum gave insects to the Norwich Society in 1825. The Carabid Pogonus burrelli was named by Curtis after Burrell who first found it in this country at Salthouse on the Norfolk coast. Dawson, however, soon showed the species to be synonymous with the continental P. luridipennis, Germar. FLS. (MD 12/01) |
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| BURNELL, Edward |
A collection of insects including British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera was sold by Burnell at Stevens's auction rooms on 23 May 1892. Chalmers-Hunt (1976), 126. (MD 12/01) |
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| BURN, G.H. |
Tony Irwin informs me that there are Burn insects in E.A. Butler’s foreign collection of Coleoptera and Hemiptera at Norwich Museum and Ashley Kirk-Spriggs that there are beetles collected by him in the Rippon collection, NMW. (MD 12/01, 10/03) |