Walter Fielding Holloway Blandford (1865–1952) was a British entomologist. He attended Cambridge University, where he took first class in the Natural History Tripos.[1] He served as a Secretary and officer for the Royal Entomological Society of London.[2] His contributions included extensive studies of the beetle family Scolytidae (now classified as a subfamily, Scolytinae), including formal descriptions of many newly-discovered species from around the world.[3]
References
edit- ^ Pegge, R. Morley (1953). "W.F.H. Blandford". The Galpin Society Journal. 6: 103–105. doi:10.2307/841725. JSTOR 841725.
- ^ Salvin, Osbert; Jones, A. Hugh; Lloyd, R. Wylie (1898). "Report of the Council". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 45: v.
- ^ Blandford, Walter F.H. (1896). "VIII. Descriptions of New Scolytidæ from the Indo‐Malayan and Austro‐Malayan Regions". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 44 (2): 191–228. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1896.tb00962.x.
External links
edit- "Blandford, Walter Fielding Holloway (BLNT883WF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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