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Murray, Andrew
Personne · 1812-1878

Andrew Dickson Murrary was a Scottish lawyer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. Murray studied insects which caused crop damage, specialising in coleoptera. In botany, he specialised in Coniferae. He served as president of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh during 1858-59. Murray was a prominent opponent of the Darwin-Wallace model of natural selection. Murray believed that hybridisation was a better explanation for mimicry than natural selection. In 1860, Murray reviewed Darwin's On the Origin of Species in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Stainton, Henry Tibbats 
Personne · 1822-1892

Henry Tibbats Stainton was an English entomologist. He served as an editor of The Entomologist's Annual and The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer

Grote, Arthur
Personne · 1814-1886

Arthur Grote was an English colonial administrator. He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1834, where as a civil servant he was employed in Bengal from 1834 to 1868 and was commissioner and member of the Board of Revenue, Calcutta, 1861-8. He also served as President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1859-62 and 1865, and President of the Royal Agricultural Society of India. On his return to England in 1868 he became a prominent member of the Linnean Society of London and Royal Asiatic Society, and wrote many papers on natural history subjects

Grey, Thomas de
Personne · 1843-1919

Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham, was an English politician and amateur entomologist. He was a keen lepidopterist, collecting butterflies and moths from a young age, and was particularly interested in Microlepidoptera. After his purchase of the Zeller, Hofmann and Christoph collections, his collection contained over 260,000 specimens. He donated it to the Natural History Museum, along with his library of 2,600 books. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1887, and was a member of the Entomological Society of London, serving as President on two occasions

Werner, Franz Josef Maria
Personne · 1867-1939

Franz Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specialising as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects and other organisms

Cambridge, Octavius Pickard
Personne · 1828-1917

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was an English clergyman and zoologist. His main interest was in spiders, though he wrote also on birds and lepidoptera. He published extensively on spiders between 1859 and his death in 1917, including in the the journal of the Zoological Society of London. He became a world authority of spiders, describing a considerable number of new species including the Costa Rican redleg tarantula and the Sydney funnel-web spider

Butler, Arthur Gardiner
Personne · 1844-1925

Arthur Gardiner Butler was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist. He worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects and spiders. He was also appointed assistant librarian at the British Museum in 1879

Hope, Frederick William
Personne · 1797-1862

Frederick William Hope was an English clergyman, naturalist, collector and entomologist, who founded a professorship at the University of Oxford to which he gave his entire collection of insects in 1849 (the Hope Entomological Collections, with around 3.5 million specimens). He described numerous species and was a founder of the Entomological Society of London in 1833. He was a founder members of the Zoological Society of London. Hope collaborated with many naturalists of the period, including Charles Darwin

Newman, Edward
Personne · 1801-1876

Edward Newman was an English entomologist, botanist and writer. He was a founder member of the Entomological Club. In 1832 he was elected as editor of the club's journal, The Entomological Magazine, and the following year became a Fellow of the Linnean Society and one of the founder members of the Entomological Society of London

Rothschild, Nathaniel Charles
Personne · 1877-1923

Nathaniel Charles Rothschild was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild family. He is remembered for The Rothschild List, a list he made in 1915 of 284 sites across Britain that he considered suitable for nature reserves. He devoted much of his energies to entomology and natural history collecting. His enormous collection of some 260,000 fleas in now in the Rothschild Collection at the Natural History Museum. He described about 500 new flea species