John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863 in
Hitchin
Hitchin () is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire Districts of England, district in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 35,842.
History
Hitchin is first noted as the central place of the Hicce peopl ...
– 18 January 1928 in
Putney) was an
English entomologist who specialised in
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...
.
Durrant was an authority on
nomenclature. He was
Lord Walsingham's secretary and had charge of his collections. When these were left to the
Natural History Museum, Walsingham provided funds for Durrant to continue to curate them. He was author, with
Lionel Walter Rothschild, of ''Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea; Macrolepidoptera.'' Tring, Zoological Museum (1915) and many scientific papers on Lepidoptera.
In 1914 Durrant began a collaboration with
Francis David Morice Francis David Morice (23 June 1849 in St John's Wood – 21 September 1926 in Woking) was an England, English entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.
The Reverend Francis David Morice was a noted Theology, theologist, linguist, and classi ...
in a significant nomenclatural work entitled "The authorship and first publication of the "
Jurinean" Genera of Hymenoptera: being a reprint of a long-lost work by
Panzer, with a translation into English, an introduction, and bibliographical and critical notes". '' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1914:339-436 (corrections, additions ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1916:432-442).
He was a
fellow of the
Royal Entomological Society.
His collections are divided between the Natural History Museum, London and the Hope Department at the
Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
References
*Anonym (1928).
urrant, J. H. ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine''. (3) 64 67.
*Busck, A. (1928).
urrant, J. H. ''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington''. 30 40.
*Collin, J. E. (1929).
urrant, J. H.''Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London''.
*Tams, W. H. T. (1928).
urrant, J. H.''Nature''. 121 214-215.
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1863 births
1928 deaths
English entomologists
Hymenopterists
People from Hitchin
Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society