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Royal Entomological Society of London
Entidad colectiva · 1833-

The Royal Entomological Society if 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. The foundation of the society began with a meeting 'of gentleman 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
Tams, W H T
Persona · fl 1944

Employed at the British Museum (Natural History)
White, Dr J
Persona · fl 1952
Waterhouse, George Robert
Waterhouse, George Robert
Persona · 1810-1888

George Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist. He became interested in entomology though his father (an amateur entomologist) and he founded the Entomological Society of London along with Frederick William Hope in 1833 with himself as honorary curator. He became its president in 1849-50. The Royal Institution at Liverpool appointed him curator of its museum in 1835 and he exchanged this in 1836 for a position at the Zoological Society of London. His early work was on cataloguing the mammals at the museum and although he completed the work the next year, it was not published as he had not followed the quinary system of that time. He was invited to join Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle but he declined it. On Darwin's return, the collection of mammals and beetles was entrusted to him. In November 1843 he became an assistant in the mineralogical department of the British Museum of Natural History. He became keeper in 1851 and held the position until his retirement in 1880. He was the author of A Natural History of the Mammalia (1846-48). He assisted Louis Agassiz with his Nomenclator Zoologicus.
Sonntag, Dr Charles F
Persona · 1888-1925

Anatomist at Zoological Society of London
Parker, Hampton Wildman
Persona · 1897-1968

Hampton Wildman Parker was an English zoologist. Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He was the author of several on snakes and frogs. He discovered a new species of of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald