Robert Bakewell

Robert Bakewell is a collector of Insecte S British, born in 1810 with Nottingham and dead the December 24th 1867.

This stockbreeder of Mouton S of Nottingham resides of many years in Australia and constitutes a very rich Collection of insects. He acquires the collection of the Lamellicorne S of marquis F. Thibault of the Caste Ferté-Sénectère (1808-1886) which included/understood the types of Pierre-François-Marie-Auguste Dejean (1780-1845) and Louis Jerome Reiche (1799-1890). In 1867, the British Museum acquires a first selection of 2.430 S which will be supplemented by other purchases. The remainder is dispersed and acquired by various collectors like Edward Wesley Janson (1822-1891), Charles Oberthür (1845-1924) or Edmond Jean-Baptiste Fleutiaux (1858-1951). Today, it is partly preserved at London, Paris and Leyde.

Source

Anthony Musgrave (1932). Bibliography off Australian Entomology, 1775-1930, with biographical notes one authors and collectors, Royal Zoological Society off News South Wales (Sydney): viii + 380.

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