John Scott (entomologist)

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John Scott (born September 21, 1823 in Morpeth , Northumberland , † August 30, 1888 there ) was a British entomologist . He became known for his work on the large-scale work The British Hemiptera , in the first volume of which he and John William Douglas first described various bedbugs , for example the family of the water strider .

Life

Scott was self-taught and not only acquired the technical knowledge of his time, but also his knowledge of music and English literature and, above all, his extraordinary knowledge of the species of insects in self-study. He started his professional career as an engineer in Glasgow . He later moved to Stockton-on-Tees and then came to London . During his years of traveling, which led him to various employment relationships in Spain , but later back to England ( Plymouth and Lee-on-the-Solent ), he always found time to write articles for the weekly magazine Entomologist's Weekly Inteligencer . In old age he suffered more and more often from epileptic seizures , which at that time however could neither be properly recognized nor treated. He was sent to an institution where he died.

The most important parts of his insect collection are now in the Natural History Museum in London . Other insects collected and determined by Scott were bought by Philip Brookes Mason of Burton-on-Trent and are now in the Bolton Museum .

John Scott is not to be confused with the Australian entomologist AW Scott (1800-1883), who mainly dealt with butterflies .

Fonts

  • with John William Douglas: The British Hemiptera, Volume 1: Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Ray Society , 1865 (subsequent volumes never appeared), Archives

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward Newman: The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology Royal Entomological Society of London J. Van Voorst 1888 p. 288
  2. ↑ a b Insect collection of the Bolton Museum ( memento from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), with short biographies of the collectors, accessed on June 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Scott, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Morpeth
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1888
Place of death Morpeth