George Robert Crotch

George Robert Crotch (* 1842 in Cambridge ; † 1874 ) was an English entomologist .

Crotch studied at Cambridge University and worked at the university library there. During his student days he became interested in insects , especially beetles . He collected insects in Europe and left England in the autumn of 1872 to go on an entomological trip around the world. After arriving in Philadelphia , he collected insects in California , Oregon and the Fraser River in British Columbia during the spring / summer 1873 season .

In 1873 he took a position as assistant to Hermann August Hagen at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology . Soon after, he died of tuberculosis .

Crotch is the author of a number of books including Checklist of the Coleoptera of America (1873) and A revision of the Coleopterous family Coccinellidae (1874). His collection of beetles from the Azores is now in the British Museum , while he has bequeathed his European insect collections to the University of Cambridge Zoological Museum.

literature

• J. Smart and B. Wager: George Robert Crotch, 1842-1874: a bibliography with a biographical note. JSBNH 8 (3): 244-248 (Nov. 1977).

Quote

"I am greatly indebted to Mr GR Crotch for having sent me numerous prepared specimens of various beetles belonging to these three families [Crioceridae, Chrysomelidae, Tenebrionidae] and others, as well as for valuable information of all kinds ... I am also much indebted to Mr. EW Janson for information and specimens... In Carabidae I have examined Elaphrus uliginosus and Blethisa multipunctata, sent to me by Mr Crotch. " Charles Darwin .

Web links

• BHL A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae . London, EW Janson , 1874.
• BHL A revision of the coleopterous family Erotylidae Cambridge University Press, 1901