The ''Entomological Magazine'' is a publication devoted to
entomology
Entomology () is the science, scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such ...
.
The ''Entomological Magazine'' was published between September 1832 and October 1838 by the
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. En ...
. The editor was
Edward Newman aided by
Francis Walker.The work includes reviews of entomological literature, articles and systematic papers in which new species are described. Contributors include
John Curtis,
Edward Doubleday
Edward Doubleday (9 October 1810 – 14 December 1849) was an English entomologist primarily interested in Lepidoptera. He is best known for ''The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and ...
("Communications on the Natural History of North America."),
Alexander Henry Haliday
Alexander Henry Haliday (1806–1870, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday, Alexis Heinrich Haliday, or simply Haliday) was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Thysanoptera, but worked on ...
(notably An essay on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera... of Britain which correspond with the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus),
George Robert Waterhouse
George Robert Waterhouse (6 March 1810 – 21 January 1888) was an English natural history, naturalist. He was a keeper at the department of geology and later curator of the Zoological Society of London's museum.
Early life
George was born ...
,
John Obadiah Westwood
John Obadiah Westwood (22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. He published several illustrated works on insects and antiquities. He was among the first entomologist ...
,
William John Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.
Life
Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of ...
,
Francis Walker ( notably
Monographia Chalciditum ),
George Thomas Rudd
George Thomas Rudd (c.1795 - 4 March 1847)M. Lawson Thompson, Report on the Coleoptera observed in Cleveland' in Proceedings of the Cleveland Naturalists Field Club 1903-04, p. 186. was an English priest and entomologist mainly interested in Co ...
,
William Edward Shuckard William Edward Shuckard (1803, Brighton – 10 November 1868, Kennington) was an English bookseller and entomologist.
He was also librarian of the Royal Society and translated ''Manual of Entomology'' Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892). He was a sp ...
,
James Charles Dale
James Charles Dale (13 December 1791 – 6 February 1872) was an English naturalist who devoted almost all of his adult life to entomology.
Family
Dale was the only son of Dorset landowner James Dale of Glanvilles Wootton and his wife, Mary ...
,
James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens (16 September 1792 – 22 December 1852) was an English entomologist and naturalist. He is known for his 12 volume ''Illustrations of British Entomology'' (1846) and the ''Manual of British Beetles'' (1839).
Early li ...
and
Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope (3 January 1797 – 15 April 1862) was an English clergyman, naturalist, collector, and entomologist, who founded a professorship at the University of Oxford to which he gave his entire collections of insects in 1849 (now ...
The ''Entomological Magazine'' was discontinued following controversy. Newman writes a "Valedictory Address" in Volume 5.
''The Entomologist''
The ''Entomological Magazine'' was succeeded by ''The Entomologist'' published in London by Edward Newman between 1840 and
869in four volumes:
*Volume 1 November 1840-October 1842;
*Volume 2 May 1864-December 1865;
*Volume 3 January 1866-November 1867;
*Volume 4 January 1868-December 1869.
This in turn was succeeded by ''Newman's Entomologist'' published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. at London
869-1876and from that date until 1973 (volume 106)
as, once more, ''The Entomologist''. Around
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, it was edited by
Richard South
Richard South FRES (July 1846 – 28 March 1932) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), particularly the smaller moths. Life and work
South was born at Cochran Terrace in Marylebone, London, England ...
.
References
{{Reflist
*Evenhuis, N.L., ''Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum'' (1758–1930). 2 vols. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden
External links
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BHL Scans of ''The Entomologist'' Volumes 10–55 (1877–1922)
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