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Herbert Willoughby Ellis
Herbert Willoughby Ellis (28 June 1869-15 October 1943) was a British entomologist. Biography Ellis was born in Woodville, Burton-upon-Trent. He attended Nuneaton School and Coppers Hill College before training as an electrician. In 1890 he joined the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society. He served as a Vice-President of the society in 1907 and then from 1910 to 1939, and as its President in 1908 and 1909. Ellis was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in 1900 and he served on its council in 1924, 1931, 1936, and 1938. He was also a member of the British Ornithologists' Union and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Ellis was an avid collector of entomology, especially of coleoptera and amassed a large reference collection. He was responsible for finding and recording the discovery of '' Arhopalus ferus'' (then as "''Criocephalus polonicus''") as new to Britain. He also corresponded and exchanged specimens with William Gabriel Blat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Entomological Society
The Royal Entomological Society is devoted to the study of insects. Its aims are to disseminate information about insects and improving communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological Society of London. It had many antecedents beginning as the Society of Entomologists of London. 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 Museum convened by Nicholas Aylward Vigors with the presidency of John George Children. Those present were the Reverend Frederick William Hope, Cardale Babington, William Yarrell, John Edward Gray, James Francis Stephens, Thomas Horsfield, George Thomas Rudd and George Robert Gray. Letters of Adrian Hardy Haworth, George Bennett and John 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Ornithologists' Union
The British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) aims to encourage the study of birds ("ornithology") and around the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation. The BOU was founded in 1858 by Professor Alfred Newton, Henry Baker Tristram and other scientists. Its quarterly journal, ''Ibis'', has been published continuously since 1859. The Records Committee (BOURC) is a committee of the BOU established to maintain the British List, the official list of birds recorded in Great Britain. BOU is headquartered in Peterborough and is a registered charity in England & Wales and Scotland. Objectives and activities * Publishes ''Ibis'' as a leading international journal of ornithological science. * Organises a programme of meetings and conferences. * Awards grants and bursaries for ornithological research. * Encourages liaison between those actively engaged in ornithological research. * Provides a representative body of the scientific community able to provide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geological Society Of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with more than 12,000 Fellows. Fellows are entitled to the postnominal FGS (Fellow of the Geological Society), over 2,000 of whom are Chartered Geologists (CGeol). The Society is a Registered Charity, No. 210161. It is also a member of the Science Council, and is licensed to award Chartered Scientist to qualifying members. The mission of the society is: "Making geologists acquainted with each other, stimulating their zeal, inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, facilitating the communication of new facts and ascertaining what is known in their science and what remains to be discovered". History The Society was founded on 13 November 1807 at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, in the Covent Garden district of London. It was partly the outcome of a previous cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arhopalus
''Arhopalus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, the longhorn beetles, in the tribe Asemini. Species ''BioLib'' lists: # ''Arhopalus asperatus'' (LeConte, 1859) # ''Arhopalus biarcuatus'' Pu, 1981 # '' Arhopalus brunneus'' (Gardner, 1942) # '' Arhopalus cavatus'' Pu, 1981 # '' Arhopalus coreanus'' (Sharp, 1905) # ''Arhopalus cubensis ''Arhopalus cubensis'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.Bezark, Larry GA Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World. Retrieved on 7 July 2012. It was described by Mutchler in 1914. References Spondylidinae Bee ...'' (Mutchler, 1914) # '' Arhopalus deceptor'' (Sharp, 1905) # '' Arhopalus exoticus'' (Sharp, 1905) # '' Arhopalus ferus'' (Mulsant, 1839) # '' Arhopalus foveatus'' Chiang, 1963 # '' Arhopalus foveicollis'' (Haldeman, 1847) # '' Arhopalus hispaniolae'' (Fisher, 1942) # †'' Arhopalus pavitus'' (Cockerell, 1927) # '' Arhopalus pinetorum'' (Wollaston, 1863) # '' Arhopalus productus'' (Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gabriel Blatch
William Gabriel Blatch (c. 1840-25 February 1900) was a British entomologist and superintendent. Biography Blatch was born in London in 1840. He was initially apprenticed as a cobbler before working as a teacher in Colchester. He first worked as a superintendent of the Essex House asylum before moving, in 1867, to the Midland Counties Idiot Asylum (latterly known as Middlefield Hospital) where he worked until his death in 1900. Blatch was an early member of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society and served as its secretary from 1871 to 1873. He subsequently co-founded the Birmingham Entomological Society and served as its president from 1889-1893. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies. Blatch's entomological collection was split after his death. Large portions of it are extant in the collections of the Manchester Museum, Birmingham Museum, and Yorkshire Museum. Small numbers are also present in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Wagstaffe
Reginald Wagstaffe (1907–1983) was a British naturalist, ornithologist, and museum curator. Career Wagstaffe attended the University of Cincinnati to study ornithology. He was appointed Curator of the Yorkshire Museum in January 1941, replacing Walter Collinge, having formerly been Curator of the Stockport Municipal Museum. Wagstaffe lived with his wife, Trissie, in Manor Cottage, a building next to the Museum in the grounds of York Museum Gardens. They were living here during the Baedeker Raid on York on 29 April 1942, during which a bomb narrowly missed the Museum, but caused considerable damage to the roof and windows. Wagstaffe led the efforts to clean up the museum and salvage the Type fossils from the wreckage. Wagstaffe worked with the Honorary Curators of Entomology, Walter Douglas Hincks and A Smith to collect specimens for the museum from Askham Bog. He also worked with Hincks to bring the Ellis collection of insects to the museum in 1945. He left the York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Douglas Hincks
Walter Douglas Hincks (3 September 1906–12 June 1961) was a British entomologist and museum curator. He was a world expert on the Dermaptera. Biography Hincks originally trained as a chemist and worked in the Pharmaceutical sector before his transition to professional entomology. He became passionate for entomology during his time as a member of the Leeds Naturalist's Club and was particularly encourage to take an interest in the Dermaptera by Malcolm Burr. In 1941 he spent some time rearranging the coleoptera collections at the Yorkshire Museum. The following year he was appointed the Honorary Curator of Entomology (excluding the lepidoptera). During 1942 Hincks worked with A. Smith and Reginald Wagstaffe to collect entomological specimens from Askham Bog for the museum collections. He was instrumental in bringing the Ellis collection of insects to the museum in 1945. Hincks replaced Harry Britten as Assistant Keeper at the Manchester Museum in 1947. In 1957 he was promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy. History The museum was founded by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS) to accommodate their geological and archaeological collections, and was originally housed in Ousegate, York, until the site became too small. In 1828, the society received by royal grant, of land formerly belonging to St Mary's Abbey for the purposes of building a new museum. The main building of the museum is called the Yorkshire Museum; it was designed by William Wilkins in a Greek Revival style and is a Grade I listed building. It was officially opened in February 1830, which makes it one of the longest established museums in England. A condition of the royal grant was that the land surrounding the museum building should be a botanic gardens and one was created in the 1830s. The botanic gardens are now known as the Museum G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Simms
Colin Simms (born 1939) is a British biologist, curator and poet. Career Biologist and curator Simms was appointed Keeper of Biology at the Yorkshire Museum in 1964. He held this position until 1982. Poet Simms has produced several collections, and more than forty pamphlets, of poetry, inspired by wildlife and the natural world. These varied works were collected into a series of publications, organised by the subject, by Shearsman Books. The first publication was ''Otters and Martens'' in 2004, followed by ''The American Poems'' (2005), ''Gyrfalcon Poems'' (2007), ''Poems from Afghanistan'' (2013), and ''Hen Harrier Poems''. In a 2015 Guardian review of ''Hen Harrier Poems'', Simms' poetry of the last half-century was described as of "huge importance, thrilling for the rigour and commitment of its vision". He won 3rd prize in the inaugural Laurel Prize for environmental poetry in 2020, for ''Hen Harrier''. His work, in a discussion of great Yorkshire poets, has also been desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1869 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the first woman to testify before the United States Congress. * January 21 – The P.E.O. Sisterhood, a philanthropic educational organization for women, is founded at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. * January 27 – The Republic of Ezo is proclaimed on the northern Japanese island of Ezo (which will be renamed Hokkaidō on September 20) by remaining adherents to the Tokugawa shogunate. * February 5 – Prospectors in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia, discover the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, known as the "Welcome Stranger". * February 20 – Ranavalona II, the Merina Queen of Madagascar, is baptized. * February 25 – The Iron and Steel Institute is formed in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 13 – Anti-Nazi protests in Sofia result in 200 arrests and 36 executions. * January 14 – January 24, 24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud of the Free French forces meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Entomologists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
