Biographical dictionary
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| BREWER, James Alexander | d. c.1890 |
Listed in Ent.Ann., 1860, at Holmesdale House, Reigate, and as being interested in British Coleoptera. He published 'Corticaria truncatella and Ceuthorhynchus biguttatus taken at Worthing' in Trans.Ent.Soc.Lond., (3)2, Proc. 81, 1865; 'Coleoptera new for the Reigate district' in Proceedings Holmesdale Natural History Club, 1865-66, 8, and 1866-67, 33-34, 41; and 'Homalota saundersi Rye captured on Reigate Heath', ibid., 1866-67, 35. He appears to have been quite a well known collector in his day and there are various references to him in contemporary literature and diaries eg. MS Diary of Janson in the Department of Zoology's entomological collections at Cambridge. Tim Winter has suggested to me that he may have been a dealer, but I know of only one recorded sale of beetles by Brewer at Stevens's auction rooms on 10 December 1869. Ashley Kirk-Spriggs tells me there are beetles collected by Brewer in the Rippon collection, NMW, and Smith (1986), 105, mentions 52 Carabidae from Cartagena, Spain in the HDO purchased at the sale of the E. Brown collection, included in lot 345, March 1877. (MD 12/01) |
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| BRAZIER, J.W. | Ashley Kirk-Spriggs tells me there are beetles collected by Brazier in the New Hebrides in the Rippon collection, NMW. (MD 12/01) | ||
| BRAUER, Richard |
A doctor. Listed in Naturalists Directory, 1904-5, as interested in Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Orthoptera and marine zoology. At this time he lived at St. John's Road, Knutsford, Cheshire. In the 1906-7 edition of this periodical his name does not occur. There is a collection of some 484 specimens of exotic Rhyncophora in Bolton Museum, collected by Bauer in 1905(?), which was purchased from A. Ford for £2-10s (Accession no. 128.05). A collection of exotic Lepidoptera collected by Bauer was sold by Stevens on 14 November 1905. (MD 12/01) |
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| BRAINE, W. | Recorded by G.J.Arrow, FBI,Lamellicornia, Rutelinae, etc., 1917, as having collected Rutelinae near Colombo, Ceylon. (MD 12/01) | ||
| BRAIKENRIDGE, George Weare |
A Reverend. Listed in the Ent.Ann., 1860, 6, as interested in British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. He was FLS and FZS and gave his addresses as Broomwell House, Brislington, near Bath, and Clevedon, near Bristol. (MD 12/01) |
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| BRADLEY, J. |
Listed in the Ent.Ann., 1860, 6, as interested in British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. At that time he lived at 23 Richmond Street, Preston. (MD 12/01) |
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| BRADBURY, C. |
Published 'A beetle parasitic in wasp's nests', Ent, 6, 1872, 2-3. (MD 12/01) |
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| BRACKENBURY, Austin | 19 August 1925 - 18 January 2016 |
Donated over 4,000 insects, including many Coleoptera collected in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire from 1975 to 1981, to Sheffield Museum. (Information from Steven Garland). (MD 12/01) |
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| BOYS, W.J.E. |
A Captain in the army. Recorded in various volumes of the FBI series as having collected Coleoptera in that country. The species Paussus boysi Westwood (1845) and Rhysodes boysi Arrow (1901) are named after him. Smith (1986) notes that Boys sent insects to Hope in 1842, now in the HDO, together with a letter. The HDO also has a cabinet of insects other than Coleoptera purchased by Westwood in 1848, and paintings and transfers of Indian insects and the manuscript of his paper on Mutilla read to the ESL, June 1843. FES 1842-43. (MD 10/01) |
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| BOYCE, Peter R. (b. 20 June 1931) | Diptera specialist who also worked on Coleoptera. Lived at Chesham, Buckinghamshire. (MD 3/03) |