Frederic Charles Fraser was an English

England

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 entomologist who specialised in Odonata

Odonata

Odonata is an order of insects, encompassing dragonflies and damselflies . The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata, but the back-formation odonate is a more correct English name for the group as a whole...

. Following army service in India

India

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 as a surgeon

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 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Fraser devoted himself entirely to dragonflies, mostly in the British Museum (Natural History)

Natural History Museum

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 where his collection is maintained. Fraser's correspondence with A. Eric Gardner is in the library of the Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

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, London. Fraser's correspondence with the Irish odonatologist Niall McNeill

Niall McNeill

Niall MacNeill was an Irish army officer and entomologist who specialised in Odonata and Heteroptera.He was the son of Eoin MacNeill founder of the Irish Volunteers which Niall MacNeill joined later becoming an officer in the Irish Army. With the rank of Colonel he specialised in surveying,...

 is in the Oxford University Museum. He was a fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

Selected works

• 1933 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. including Burma and Ceylon Odonata. 1. Introduction, Coenagriidae. New Delhi.423pp.
• 1934 The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. including Burma and Ceylon Odonata. 2. Agriidae, Gomphidae. New Delhi.398 pp, 120 figures, 1 coloured plate.
• 1954 The Origin and Descent of the Order Odonata based on the Evidence of persistent archaic Characters. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London.Ser.B, 23: 89-95
• 1957 A reclassification of the order Odonata R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney, Australia, 155 pp.
• 1960 A handbook of the dragonflies of Australasia: with keys for the identification of all species R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney, Australia, 67 pp. + 27 plates.

Sources

• Anon. [F.C. Fraser] Entom. Mon. Mag., 99, 1963, p. 96 including a portrait.