Thomas Marsham

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Thomas Marsham (* around 1748; † November 26, 1819 in London ) was a British entomologist and one of the founders of the Linnean Society of London .

Marsham was a full-time secretary for the West India Dock Company. During the Napoleonic Wars he was an officer in the Home Guard for many years.

In 1788 he founded the Linnean Society of London with the amateur botanist and clergyman Samuel Goodenough , later Bishop of Carlisle, and the botanist and doctor Sir James Edward Smith . The first meetings (first in 1788) took place at Smith's house in London, where he also kept the botanical collection of Linnaeus (Smith moved several times to London). It took on more solid forms with the publication of a charter in 1802. Marsham was secretary and treasurer of the society from its inception until 1798.

His main work is the Entomologia Britannica, of which only the first volume on beetles appeared in 1802, listing 1307 species. The subsequent volumes on other insect orders never appeared. The book uses the Linnaeus system.

Fonts

  • System of Entomology, in Hall's Royal Encyclopaedia 1788, reprinted 1796
  • Entomologia Britannica, sistens Insecta Britanniae indigena secundum Methodum Linnaeanam disposita. Coleoptera., London 1802 Archives
  • Description of Notoclea, a new genus of Coleopterous insects from New Holland, Transactions Linnean Society, Volume 9, 1808, 283-295

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data in Michael Salmon, The Aurelian Legacy, University of California Press 2000, p. 122
  2. ^ Australian beetle genus, later genus Paropsis (Olivier) of the Chrysomeloidea
personal data
SURNAME Marsham, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1748
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1819
Place of death London