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Insect
Insects are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body , three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae...
study. It has a major national and international role in disseminating information about insects and improving communication between entomologists
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...
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The Society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of London. It had many antecedents beginning as the Society of Entomologists of London
Society of Entomologists of London
The Society of Entomologists of London was one of a series of brief-lived entomological societies based in London.The members met to exhibit, identify and exchange, sell or purchase insects which were sometimes very expensive as were books. Entomology was limited to the wealthy...
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History
The foundation of the society began with a meeting of "gentlemen and friends of entomological science", held on 3 May 1833 in the British MuseumBritish Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
convened by Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors was an Irish zoologist and politician.Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809 to 1811. He then returned to Oxford, graduating with a B.A. in 1815 and in 1817 with an...
with the presidency of John George Children
John George Children
John George Children was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist.Children studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 1822 he was working as a librarian in the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum when he was appointed assistant keeper of the Natural History Department in succession...
. Those present were the Reverend Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford....
, Cardale Babington
Cardale Babington
Charles Cardale Babington was an English botanist and archaeologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851....
, William Yarrell
William Yarrell
William Yarrell was an English bookseller and naturalist.Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of British Fishes and The History of British Birds . The latter went into several editions and was the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists...
, John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens was an English entomologist.-Biography:Stephens was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and studied at Christ's Hospital.He was employed in the Admiralty office, Somerset House, from 1807 to 1845...
, Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield M. D. was an American physician and naturalist.Horsfield was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of Timothy Horsfield, Sr., a colonel and justice of the peace in Bethlehem, and a friend mentioned in Benjamin...
, G. T. Rudd
G. T. Rudd
G.T. Rudd was an English entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.Rudd was a cleric who lived in Wiltshire. His captures of beetles are mentioned by James Francis Stephens, John Curtis and Alexander Henry Haliday and he collected insects with George Samouelle...
and George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years...
. Letters of Adrian Hardy Haworth
Adrian Hardy Haworth
Adrian Hardy Haworth was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.He was the son of Benjamin Haworth of Haworth Hall...
, George Bennett and John Curtis
John Curtis (entomologist)
John Curtis was an English entomologist and illustrator.-Biography:Curtis was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles Morgan Curtis...
were read where they expressed their regrets to be unable to attend the meeting.
They decided that a society should be created for the promotion of the science of entomology in its various branches and it should be called the Entomological Society of London. J.G. Children, F.W. Hope, J.F. Stephens, W Yarrell and G Rudd were elected to form a committee, with G.R. Gray as secretary. J.G. Children became the first president and William Kirby (1759–1850) was made honorary president for life. The real date of the foundation of the society was more probably on 22 May 1833, when the members met in Thatched House Tavern, on St James's Street. During this meeting, George Robert Waterhouse
George Robert Waterhouse
George Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist.In 1833, Waterhouse was elected as the Royal Entomological Society of London's librarian and curator of insects and records....
(1810–1888) was elected librarian and curator of the insects and records. As of this meeting, foreign honorary members were elected: Johann Cristoph Friedrich Klug
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist born 5 May 1775 in Berlin and died 3 February 1856 in the same city.He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ...
(1775–1856), Wilhem de Haan
Wilhem de Haan
Wilhem de Haan was a Dutch zoologist. He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, now Naturalis. He was forced to retire in 1846, when he was partially paralysed by a spinal disease...
(1801–1855), Victor Audouin
Jean Victoire Audouin
thumb|Victor AudouinJean Victoire Audouin , sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist.Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine...
(1797–1841), Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst
Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst
Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst , sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist and zoologist.- Life:...
(1777–1857), Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann
Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann
Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann , was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist...
(1770–1840), Carl Eduard Hammerschmidt
Carl Eduard Hammerschmidt
Karl Eduard Hammerschmidt also called Abdullah Bei and Carl was an Austrian mineralogist, entomologist and physician.Hammerschmidt studied the law, but could not become an advocate...
(1800–1874) and Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy
Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy
Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy (14 November 1798 Paris - 1867 le Bouchevilliers, near Gisors was a French entomologistde Cérisy worked as clerk to a solicitor. It was Jean-Baptist Godart (1775-1825) who introduced him to...
(1798–1867). William Blandell Spence
William Blundell Spence
William Blundell Spence was an English artist and art dealer. Born in Drypool, Yorkshire, to noted entomologist William Spence and his wife Elizabeth Blundell, he spent the years 1826-1832 travelling abroad with his parents...
(1813–1900) received the task of maintaining of the relations with continental entomologists.
The society started to assemble a library, an early addition being the personal library of Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), purchased by John Obadiah Westwood
John Obadiah Westwood
John Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....
(1805–1893) on behalf of the society. The insect collection also increased.
In September 1834, the society numbered 117 honorary members and 10 full members. Women were allowed membership and profited from the same rights as the men. A publication commenced in November 1834 under the title Transactions of Entomological Society of London.
Secretary G.R. Gray resigned in the same year then and was replaced by J.O. Westwood. Under the impulse of this last entomologist, who had many functions, the society made great strides. It was in particular attended regularly by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
(1809–1882) on his return from the voyage on H.M.S. Beagle
HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, at a cost of £7,803. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom in which...
: he became a member of the council and vice-president in 1838. J.O. Westwood left his functions in 1848 and was replaced by Edward Doubleday
Edward Doubleday
Edward Doubleday was an English entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.He is best known for Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus....
(1810–1849) and William Frederick Evans
William Frederick Evans
William Frederick Evans was an English entomologist who worked on Odonata and Orthoptera.Evans wrote British Libellulinae or Dragonflies which has 12 coloured plates. This seems to be a rare work of entomology and Description of a species of grasshopper from New South Wales. Trans. Entomol. Soc....
. They in their turn were soon replaced. In 1849, a secretary charged to collect the minutes of the meetings was named in the person of John William Douglas
John William Douglas
John William Douglas was an English entomologist, chiefly interested in microlepidopteraJohn William Douglas was born 1814 in Putney. He became interested in insects whilst working at Kew Gardens and published many papers and books on entomology...
(1814–1905), a position he kept until 1856. He was assisted in 1851-1852 by Henry Tibbats Stainton
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Henry Tibbats Stainton was an English entomologist.He was educated at King's College London.He was the author of Manual of British Butterflies and Moths and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of The Natural...
(1822–1892), in 1853-1854 by William Wing
William Wing
.William Wing was an English zoological illustrator and entomologist. He was a member of the Entomological Society of Londonfrom 1847 and in 1853-1854 assisted John William Douglas his role as Minutes Secretary....
(1827–1855), in 1855-1856 by Edwin Shepherd who then replaced J.W. Douglas in his position. Edward Wesley Janson
Edward Wesley Janson
Edward Wesley Janson was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.The Janson family was of Dutch origin and Edward Wesley Janson's father was the London Agent of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway Company....
(1822–91), a natural history agent, publisher and entomologist was Curator of the Entomological Society collections from 1850–63 and librarian from 1863–74.
Edward Mason Janson (1847–1880) took over the post of curator from Frederick Smith
Frederick Smith (entomologist)
Frederick Smith was a British entomologist.Smith worked in the zoology department of the British Museum from 1849, specialising in the Hymenoptera. In 1875 he was promoted to Assistant Keeper of Zoology...
(1805–1879) who then left to work in the British Museum. H.T. Stainton, who was involved more and more in the life of the society, seemed to have some problems working with E.M. Janson. He was replaced by W Wing in 1852. In this year, the society moved from its building at 17, Old Bond Street to 12, Bedford Row. The following year, three of the four most responsible for the society were replaced: Edward Newman (1801–1876) took the place of J.O. Westwood as president, Samuel Stevens (1817–1899) took the place of W Yarrell as treasurer and W Wing the place of H.T. Stainton as secretary.
Publications
The Society publishes the quarterly journal Antenna for entomological news.Fellowship
The Royal Entomological Society invites applications for Fellowship from those who have made a substantial contribution to entomology, through publications or other evidence of achievement. Applications for a Fellowship are referred to a Committee of Council, who then forward a recommendation to Council. Fellows are entitled to make use of the title "Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society" and the suffix "FRES" may be regarded as an academic qualification.Presidents
- 1833-1834: John George ChildrenJohn George ChildrenJohn George Children was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist.Children studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 1822 he was working as a librarian in the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum when he was appointed assistant keeper of the Natural History Department in succession...
- 1835-1836: Frederick William HopeFrederick William HopeFrederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford....
- 1837-1838: James Francis StephensJames Francis StephensJames Francis Stephens was an English entomologist.-Biography:Stephens was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and studied at Christ's Hospital.He was employed in the Admiralty office, Somerset House, from 1807 to 1845...
- 1839-1840: Frederick William HopeFrederick William HopeFrederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford....
- 1841-1842: William Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson Saunders was a British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist.Saunders was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London...
- 1843-1844: George NewportGeorge NewportGeorge Newport was a prominent English entomologist .Newport is especially noted for his studies utilizing the microscope and his skills in dissection. He was President of the Entomological Society of London 1843-1844 and also a member of the Ray Society .George Newport wrote several scholarly...
- 1845-1846: Frederick William HopeFrederick William HopeFrederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford....
- 1847-1848: William SpenceWilliam Spence (entomologist)William Spence was a British economist and entomologist.Spence was born in Bishop Burton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, the oldest of four children of farmer Robert Spence. He was apprenticed to Russian merchants and shipowners Carhill, Greenwood & Co...
- 1849-1850: George Robert WaterhouseGeorge Robert WaterhouseGeorge Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist.In 1833, Waterhouse was elected as the Royal Entomological Society of London's librarian and curator of insects and records....
- 1852-1853: John Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....
- 1853-1854: Edward Newman
- 1855-1856: John CurtisJohn Curtis (entomologist)John Curtis was an English entomologist and illustrator.-Biography:Curtis was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles Morgan Curtis...
- 1856-1857: William Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson Saunders was a British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist.Saunders was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London...
- 1858-1859: John Edward GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
- 1860-1861: John William DouglasJohn William DouglasJohn William Douglas was an English entomologist, chiefly interested in microlepidopteraJohn William Douglas was born 1814 in Putney. He became interested in insects whilst working at Kew Gardens and published many papers and books on entomology...
- 1862-1863: Frederick SmithFrederick Smith (entomologist)Frederick Smith was a British entomologist.Smith worked in the zoology department of the British Museum from 1849, specialising in the Hymenoptera. In 1875 he was promoted to Assistant Keeper of Zoology...
- 1864-1865: Francis Polkinghorne PascoeFrancis Polkinghorne PascoeFrancis Polkinghorne Pascoe was a Cornish entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.-Biography:He was born in Penzance Cornwall and trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Appointed surgeon in the Navy he served on Australian, West Indian and Mediterranean stations...
- 1866-1867: John Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
- 1868-1869: Henry Walter BatesHenry Walter BatesHenry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...
- 1870-1871: Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
- 1874-1875: William Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson Saunders was a British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist.Saunders was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London...
- 1878: Henry Walter BatesHenry Walter BatesHenry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...
- 1879-1880: John Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
- 1881-1882: Henry Tibbats StaintonHenry Tibbats StaintonHenry Tibbats Stainton was an English entomologist.He was educated at King's College London.He was the author of Manual of British Butterflies and Moths and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of The Natural...
- 1883-1884: Joseph William DunningJoseph William DunningJoseph William Dunning was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Dunning was a notary.He wrote with A. W. Pickard An Accentuated List of the British Lepidoptera, with hints of the derivation of the names Entomological Societies of Oxford and Cambridge...
- 1885-1886: Robert Mac LachlanRobert Mac LachlanRobert McLachlan was an English entomologist, born on April 10 , 1837 in Ongar , Essex. He died on May 23 , 1904 in Lewisham , close to London. He was the son of Hugh Mc Lachlan. He was educated in Ilford and inherited sufficient money to enable him to devote himself enitirely to the study...
- 1887-1888: David SharpDavid Sharp (entomologist)David Sharp FRS was an English physician and entomologist who worked mainly on Coleoptera.David Sharp was born at Towcester on 18 October, 1840. Some twelve years later his parents removed to London, where therefore, as a boy he received his education. After attending one or two preparatory...
- 1889-1890: Lord Thomas de Grey Walsingham
- 1891-1892: Frederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....
- 1893-1894: Henry John ElwesHenry John ElwesHenry John Elwes, FRS was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, naturalist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalayas and Korea. He was the first person to receive the Victoria Medal of the Royal Horticultural...
- 1895-1896: Raphael MeldolaRaphael MeldolaRaphael Meldola FRS was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–5.- Life :...
- 1897-1898: Roland TrimenRoland TrimenRoland Trimen FRS was a British-South African entomologist, best-known for South African Butterflies , a collaborative work with Colonel James Henry Bowker....
- 1899-1900: George Henry VerrallGeorge Henry VerrallGeorge Henry Verrall was a British horse racing official, entomologist, botanist and Conservative politician.-Horse racing:...
- 1901-1902: William Weekes FowlerWilliam Weekes FowlerWilliam Weekes Fowler was an English clergyman and entomologist mainly interested in beetles.-Biography:Son of the Reverend Hugh Fowler, Vicar of Barnwood, Gloucestershire, Fowler was educated at Rugby School and at Jesus College, Oxford. He became a Master at Repton School in 1873 and was...
- 1903-1904: Edward Bagnall PoultonEdward Bagnall PoultonSir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection...
- 1905-1906: Frederick MerrifieldFrederick MerrifieldFrederick Merrifield was an English entomologist.Merrifield was a London attorney. An expert on Lepidoptera, he was especially interested in the effect of temperature on the colour and patterning of butterflies, rearing larvae and pupae in controlled temperature incubators and recording the...
- 1907-1908: Charles Owen WaterhouseCharles Owen WaterhouseCharles Owen Waterhouse was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Waterhouse was an Assistant Keeper at the British Museum Charles Owen Waterhouse (19 June 1843 - 4 February 1917) was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.Waterhouse was an Assistant Keeper at the...
- 1909-1910: Frederick Augustus DixeyFrederick Augustus DixeyFrederick Augustus Dixey FRS was president of the Royal Entomological Society of London, and was a distinguished entomologist....
- 1911-1912: Francis David MoriceFrancis David MoriceFrancis David Morice was an English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.The Reverend Francis David Morice was a noted theologist and linguist who wrote Stories in Attic Greek , still in print.His work in entomology involved extensive travel...
- 1913-1914: George Thomas Bethune-BakerGeorge Thomas Bethune-BakerGeorge Thomas Bethune-Baker was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, especially Lycaenidae....
- 1915-1916: Nathaniel Charles Rothschild
- 1917-1918: Charles Joseph GahanCharles Joseph GahanCharles Joseph Gahan was born on 20 January 1862 at Roscrea County Tipperary, Ireland. His father, Michael Gahan was the Master of Erasmus Smith's School in Tipperary. He was educated first at Queens College Galway, where he achieved distinction, and then at the Royal School of Mines in Kensington...
- 1919-1920: James John WalkerJames John Walker (entomologist)John James Walker was an English entomologist.Walker was a marine engineer trained at the Royal Navy dockyard in Sheerness and voyaged around most of the world, collecting insects when on land....
- 1921-1922: Lionel Walter Rothschild
- 1923-1924: Edward Ernest GreenEdward Ernest GreenEdward Ernest Green was an English mycologist and entomologist who specialised in Coccidae.Green was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. From 1880 Green managed his family's tea and coffee plantations in Ceylon....
- 1927-1928: James Edward CollinJames Edward CollinJames Edward Collin was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.He was the author of Empididae. British Flies, Volume 6. University Press, Cambridge...
- 1929-1930: Karl JordanKarl JordanHeinrich Ernst Karl Jordan was a German entomologist.Jordan was born in Hanover and educated at Göttingen University. In 1893 he began work at the Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring, specialising in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Siphonaptera...
- 1931-1932: Harry EltringhamHarry EltringhamHarry Eltringham FRS was an English histologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.He had ben awarded a Master of Science and a Doctor of Science ....
Notable members
- Sergei AlphérakySergei AlphérakySergei Nikolaevich Alphéraky was a Russian ornithologist and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Sergei Alphéraky was born into a noble Greek family of Alferakis, brother to composer Achilles Alferaki, his father Nikos Alferakis owned the Alferaki Palace in Taganrog...
- Charles Golding BarrettCharles Golding BarrettCharles Golding Barrett was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He wrote The Lepidoptera of the British Islands : a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, their preparatory states, habits, and localities. London : L...
- Charles Thomas BinghamCharles Thomas BinghamCharles Thomas Bingham was an Irish military officer and entomologist.Bingham’s military career began in India where he was a soldier in the Bombay Staff Corps and later with the Bengal Staff Corps...
- John CurtisJohn Curtis (entomologist)John Curtis was an English entomologist and illustrator.-Biography:Curtis was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles Morgan Curtis...
- Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
- Carl August DohrnCarl August DohrnCarl August Dohrn was a German entomologist.-Biography:Born at Stettin Carl August was the son of Heinrich Dohrn, who was a wine and spice merchant, and had made the family fortune by trading in sugar...
- Alexander Henry HalidayAlexander Henry HalidayAlexander Henry Haliday, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday and Alexis Heinrich Haliday sometimes Halliday , was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera and Thysanoptera, but Haliday worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology.Haliday...
- William Chapman HewitsonWilliam Chapman HewitsonWilliam Chapman Hewitson was a British naturalist, born on 9 January 1806 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and died on 28 May 1878. A wealthy collector, this naturalist was particularly devoted to the Coleoptera and the Lepidoptera and, also, to bird's nests and eggs...
- Carl Barton HuffakerCarl Barton HuffakerCarl Barton Huffaker was an American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist....
- Robert Mac LachlanRobert Mac LachlanRobert McLachlan was an English entomologist, born on April 10 , 1837 in Ongar , Essex. He died on May 23 , 1904 in Lewisham , close to London. He was the son of Hugh Mc Lachlan. He was educated in Ilford and inherited sufficient money to enable him to devote himself enitirely to the study...
- John Henry LeechJohn Henry LeechJohn Henry Leech John Henry Leech John Henry Leech (5 December 1862- 29 December 1900, Salisbury was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.His collections from China , Japan and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum , London.These contain also insects from...
- Cynthia LongfieldCynthia LongfieldCynthia Longfield Dragonfly expert and explorer, she travelled extensively and published The Dragonflies of the British Isles in 1937. She worked as a research associate at the Natural History Museum, London. Longfield was the expert on the dragonflies at the Museum, researching particularly...
- Claude MorleyClaude MorleyClaude Morley was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera....
- Miriam Louisa Rothschild
- Henry Rowland-BrownHenry Rowland-BrownHenry Rowland-Brown was an English entomologist who specialised in LepidopteraBy profession Rowland-Brown was a journalist and author. He wrote The distribution and variation of Coenonympha tullia in the UK...
- Victor Antoine SignoretVictor Antoine SignoretVictor Antoine Signoret was a French pharmacologist, physician and entomologist .In 1845 Signoret gained his doctorate in pharmacology at the University of Paris. His thesis was entitled De l'Arsenic considéré sous ses divers points de vue...
- Francis WalkerFrancis Walker (entomologist)Francis Walker was an English entomologist. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms....
- Doug WaterhouseDoug WaterhouseDr Douglas Frew Waterhouse CMG AO ForMemRS was an Australian entomologist.Waterhouse was the chief of the CSIRO entomology division from 1960 - 1981. He is best known for the invention of the active ingredient in Aerogard, an Australian insect repellent...
See also
- Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society of London
External links
- BHL Digitised Transactions
- Google Books Volume 1 of the Transactions