Francis Balfour-Browne

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William Alexander Francis Balfour-Browne , called Frank , (born December 27, 1874 in London , † September 28, 1967 ) was a British entomologist . He was a specialist in swimming beetles and wrote a monograph on British swimming beetles for the Ray Society .

Life

He studied botany at Oxford (Magdalen College) with the degree in 1896, but was then admitted to the bar and in 1898 as a lawyer. Only a year later he gave up to study zoology at Oxford. He was at the marine research laboratory in Plymouth and in 1902 director of the Sutton Broad Laboratory in Norfolk and then a biologist with the Ulster Fishery and Biology Department in Northern Ireland. From 1906 he was an assistant in biology and soon afterwards a lecturer in botany at the later Queen's University in Belfast and in 1913 he became a lecturer at Cambridge University. 1925 to 1930 he was professor of entomology at Imperial College London .

He was President of the Royal Microscopical Society and Vice President of the Royal Entomological Society from 1934 to 1935 , President of the Zoological Section of the Royal Association in 1935 and President of the Society for British Entomology in 1939. Together with George Parker Bidder he founded the Association of British Zoologists, of which he was also president. On December 19, 1904, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

His son, John Balfour-Browne, was an entomologist at the Natural History Museum .

Fonts

  • Key to the Orders of Insects, Cambridge University Press 1920
  • Concerning the Habits of Insects, Cambridge University Press 1925 (Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution), Archives
  • Text-book of Practical Entomology, New York: Longmans, Green 1932
  • British Water Beetles, Ray Society, 3 volumes, 1940, 1950, 1958

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FS Russell, Obituary George Parker Bidder. In: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK , 34 (1), p. 9 (1955), accessed on August 24, 2015 (PDF, English)
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Balfour-Browne, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balfour-Browne, William Alexander Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1967