William Edward Shuckard
William Edward Shuckard (* 1802 or 1803 in Brighton , † November 10, 1868 in Kennington ) was a British entomologist and librarian of the Royal Society .
His father, Johann Leonhardt Schuckardt, immigrated to England from Frankfurt am Main in 1787 and ran a hotel in Brighton. Since Shuckard spoke good German, he also translated natural history books from German, such as Hermann Burmeister's Manual of Entomology .
At first he dealt with beetles, later mainly with hymenoptera . He worked on the hymenoptera that Charles Darwin had collected on the trip with the Beagle.
He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London .
Fonts
- Elements of British Entomology, London, Baillière 1839
- British bees: an introduction to the study of the natural history and economy of the bees indigenous to the British Isles, London: L. Reeve 1866
- with W. Spry: The British Coleoptera delineated: consisting of figures of all the genera of British beetles, London: W. Crofts 1840, 1861
- Essay on the indigenous fossorial Hymenoptera: comprising a description of all the British species of burrowing sand wasps contained in the metropolitan collections, with their habits as far as they have been observed, London: WE Shuckard, 1837
- with William Swainson : On the history and natural arrangement of insects, London: Longmans 1840 (Cabinet Cyclopedia)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yolanda Foot, Shuckard Article, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shuckard, William Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British entomologist and librarian to the Royal Society |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1802 or 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brighton |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1868 |
| Place of death | Kennington |