Adam Parker has provided the following information about Perkins: Coleopterist, primarily working in Cambridgeshire.  There are specimens collected by him in the Yorkshire Museum including examples from Wicken Fen. The collection was organised and then donated by Dr Barry Stewart in 1944. Field diaries are also in the museum.

There are references in the Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1944  (listed in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (biodiversitylibrary.org)). (MD 12/21)