- John Hartley Durrant
John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863,
Hitchin - 18 January 1928 ,Putney ) was an English entomologist who specialsed inLepidoptera .Durrant was an authority nomenclature.He was Lord Walsingham's secretary and had charge of his collections. When these were left to the
Natural History Museum , London Walsingham provided funds for Durrant to continue to curate it. He was, withLionel 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 very many scientific papers on Lepidoptera.In 1914 Durrant began a collaboration with
Francis David Morice 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 [Durrant, J. H.] "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (3) 64 67.
*Busck, A. 1928 [Durrant, J. H.] "Proc. ent. Soc. Wash". 30 40.
*Collin, J. E. 1929 [Durrant, J. H.] "Proc. Ent. Soc. London".
*Tams, W. H. T. 1928 [Durrant, J. H.] "Nature" 121 214-215.
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