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	William Kirby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Kirby (September 19, 1759 – July 4, 1850) was an English entomologist.
		Kirby was born at Witnesham in Suffolk, and studied at Ipswich grammar school and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1781.
		The practical result of a friendship formed in 1805 with William Spence, of Hull, was the jointly written Introduction to Entomology (4 vols., 1815-1826; 7th ed., 1856).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Kirby (247 words)

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		William Ronald, a native of Scotland, was a delegate in the Virginia Convention of 1788.
		William Houston, son of Sir Patrick Houston, was a Delegate to the Continental Congress (1784-87) and a Depute from Georgia to the Convention for revising the Federal Constitution.
		William Harper (1790-1847), born in Antigua, Leeward Islands, of Scottish parents, was Chancellor of the University of South Carolina (1828-30, 1835-47) and Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina (1830-35).
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		KIRBY, WILLIAM (1759–1850), English entomologist, was born at Witnesham in Suffolk on the 19th of September 1759.
		The practical result of a friendship formed in 1805 with William Spence, of Hull, was the jointly written Introduction to Entomology (4 vols., 1815–1826; 7th ed.,,856), one of the most popular books of science that have ever appeared.
		In 183o he was chosen to write one of the Bridgewater Treatises, his subject being The History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals (2 vols., 1835).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=37875 (243 words)

	Spencercoatofarms
		Dictionaries of surnames indicate probable spelling variations or Spencer to be Spence, Spences, Spenser, Spensers, Spen, Spens, and Spencers.
		William Spencer (Spence) (1783-1860) Entomologist who collaborated with William Kirby in the celebrated "Introduction to Entomology", between 1815 and 1826; in 1847 he elected President of the Entomological Society which he helped to found in 1833; and, throughout his lifetime wrote notable economic treatises.
		JAMES SPENCER (Spence) (1812-1882) Surgeon who studied in Edinburgh where, between 1834 and 1882, he was a Professor of Anatomy and Surgery; was considered on the the "greats" in the operating methods of the "Old School."
	geocities.com /Heartland/Flats/6124/Spencercoatofarms.htm (442 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Ca-Ch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		His father, William Cape, was a London bank manager who emigrated to Australia with his family in 1821, and at the end of 1822 became master of a private school, the Sydney Academy.
		At the end of 1622 he was instructed to extend the exploration of the Duyfken under William Jansz (q.v.), and on 21 January 1623 left Amboyna and sailed towards New Guinea in the yacht Pera accompanied by another small vessel, the Aernem or Arnhem.
		He and (Sir) William Stawell (q.v.) worked together over the estimates introduced on 4 November 1852, which included £10,000 for the proposed university, and together they made the original draft, which is in Childers's writing, of the university bill.
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	WHMC-Columbia--Meiners, Edwin P. (1893-1960), Collection, 1825-1960 (C3722)--INVENTORY
		The papers of a St. Louis physician and entomologist include personal correspondence with amateur and professional entomologists concerning entomology and the exchange of specimens for Meiners's insect collection and collections of correspondence of nineteenth and twentieth century entomologists, naturalists, and natural history organizations.
		Haseman, Leonard, entomologist at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
		Entomologists often sent their specimens to Van Duzee for determination; many of the letters are concerned with the identification of insects.
	www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/3722.html (6583 words)

	Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. (1954) 42 C2d 682
		The entomologist of the Bureau of Chemistry of the department stated that the weed killer was present in an amount toxic to bean sprouts, and another expert testified that cotton is more sensitive to this substance than bean sprouts.
		Sherwin Williams, the cooperative, the Rankin company and various individuals employed by these companies were joined in a single action charging negligence in the manufacturing, selling and using of the Sherwin Williams' solution.
		Sherwin Williams alone appeals from the judgment and contends that no instructions should have been given on res ipsa loquitur and that those given on that doctrine and on implied warranties were erroneous.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C2/42C2d682.htm (3089 words)

	Record Unit 7112 - J. O. (John Obadiah) Westwood Papers, 1816-1890
		One of the most important nineteenth-century British entomologists, he was also well-known for his minute illustrations of insects and reproductions of illuminated manuscripts, especially of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.
		The collection and library were donated between 1847 and 1858 by Frederick William Hope, who was the first president of the Entomological Society and a close friend of Westwood.
		Also, included is a letter from William Wilson Saunders to Westwood, 1841, regarding to an enclosed drawing of an insect; and a letter from W. Distant to Westwood, 1880, regarding identification of insects drawn by Westwood.
	siarchives.si.edu /findingaids/FARU7112.htm (1245 words)

	MBR: MBR Bookwatch, April 2005
		Spence is an experienced astronomer, and explains all aspects of sun viewing; from safety to identifying sun qualities and keeping records of observations.
		Peters also states that her only hope of living means breaking into the Arizona lab of geneticist William London who is guarded by US and British elite troops led by Special Air Services Captain Des Asher, a rare opponent worthy of Dawn's skills.
		In the Brazilian Rainforest, Jessica meets entomologist Rick Kincaid who is studying the moths that pollinate her orchid.
	www.midwestbookreview.com /mbw/apr_05.htm (22441 words)

	Chapter 11 - Elginites
		Born in Elgin, John William (Billy) Gates (1852?-1932) pursued a variety of occupations, but he was chiefly a bill poster and advance agent for circuses and theatrical road shows.
		William G. Todd (1821-1913), who arrived in Elgin with his family in 1837, was an early graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago, although he never practiced.
		Editor of the first law journal in the west, she passed the required examination in 1869 and applied for admission to the Illinois Bar, only to be refused because she was a woman.
	www.elginhistory.com /dgb/ch11.htm (8952 words)

	Ornithology, Bird Books, Colour Plate, Rare & Out-of-Print Books
		London, William Heinemann, [1938], First edition, 8vo [22 x 15 cm]; xii, 299 pp, numerous illus from photos, drwg by John Baker, map, orig green cloth, gilt spine lettering clear, light foxing on edge, very good.
		London and Beccles, William Clowes and Sons, 1933-1936, First edition, 4to [26.5 x 19 cm]; 4 volumes, xxxii, 454, [ii, ads]; viii, 553, [ii]; ix, 355; ix, 420 pp, 40 color plates, fldg color map (clean tear at fold), 521 other illus, glossary, index in each volume, orig cloth with gilt lettering on spines, t.
		An excellent biography of William Bartram (1739-1823), who was the most important US naturalist of his time, who traveled widely in the American colonies and greatly influenced Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon.
	www.horizonbook.com /birds.html (12080 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		William Kirby and William Spence, for example, devote several pages of their Introduction to Entomology (1828) to the lesser death-watch, "so called, because it emits a sound resembling the ticking of a watch, supposed to predict the death of some one of the family in the house in which it is heard" (13).
		Similarly, two treatises by James Rennie, Insect Architecture and Insect Miscellanies, rehearse the superstition attached to the death-watch and describe its sound as "resembling the ticking of a watch" (14).
		(13) William Kirby and William Spence, An Introduction to Entomology (London, 1828), 381-383.
	www.eapoe.org /PAPERS/misc1990/jer19691.htm (4559 words)

	WV State Archives Manuscript Collection
		Colonel William Hamilton was superintendent of the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike, originally born in Pennsylvania and died during the Civil War after being released from prison in Ohio, where he was sent for Confederate sympathies and refusing to swear allengiance to the Union.
		William Stephen Morgan (1801-1878) was born in Monongalia County.
		William Erskine Stevenson (1820-1883) was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1857-1858), member 1st Constitutional Convention (1861), WV Senate (1863-1869), Governor (1869-1871), publisher of Parkersburg State Journal.
	www.wvculture.org /history/mancoll.html (10298 words)

	Gazetteer for Scotland: Scottish History Timeline: Early 20th Century; 1900-49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		William (Willie) Law Anderson died - Golfer, who dominated the game in the USA in the first decade of the 20th C
		William (Willie) Ross (Lord Ross of Marnock) born - Labour politician and longest serving Secretary of State for Scotland
		William Hesketh Lever (1st Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles) died - Industrialist and philanthropist
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/timeline1949.html (3502 words)

	Curtis's entomology
		He is often described as the first entomologist to earn his living as a scientist.
		Curtis was born in Norwich, the son of Charles Morgan Curtis, stone-engraver and sign-painter.
		Around this time he also began to learn copper engraving, a skill which was very useful to him later when supervising the engraving of his own work, ensuring that he was able to achieve the highest quality reproduction of his paintings.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /depsta/iss/library/speccoll/bomarch/bomjan06.html (1192 words)

	Scientific Expeditions, Nature, Travel, Voyages, Exploration, Rare & Out-of-Print Books
		He was an accomplished naturalist but was also an ornithologist, entomologist, ichthyologist, ecologist and taxonomist as this volume clearly illustrates.
		He provides an account of the geological structure and history of the Kenya colony with much pioneering research on the Great Rift Valley, Mount Kenya, etc. Appendices on the Edible Earths, Soils, Fossils, Rocks and Masai place names are by E. Cathcart, R. Berry, R. Newton, Agnes Neilson and A. Holles.
		Norman 1056: 'With this monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, Herschel completed the task begun by his father William, who fifty years earlier had catalogued the northern celestial hemisphere.
	www.horizonbook.com /sciexped.html (3546 words)

	The Descent of Man \| Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Also Kirby and Spence, Introduction to Entomology, vol.
		Increased size has here been acquired in opposition to the usual relation between size and the period of development, for the males, though larger, emerge before the smaller females.
		In the family of bees, especially in the solitary species, as I hear from the same entomologist, the sexes often differ in colour.
	www.book-worm.org /darwin-charles/the-descent-of-man/chapter-10.html (5145 words)

	Georgia Magazine \| Class Notes
		William Lazenby (DVM '76) of Fort Lawn, S.C., was elected president of the South Carolina Association of Veterinarians.
		Williams' unit also worked 18 days to complete humanitarian and civic projects in six different coastal areas of Kenya.
		William Merrick (MS '69, PhD '71) of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, received the preclinical faculty Gender Equity Award at the diploma ceremony for the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
	www.uga.edu /gm/902/Notes3.html (14124 words)

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		at Univ. of Lond.) (1840-) Henry Henry, William (Eng.
		entomologist) (1759-1850) Kirby and Spence Kirby, William, and Spence, W. Int.
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	Solitary Wasps
		Their burrows are deep in the earth and are carefully concealed by the insertion of a stone, over which dry earth is scraped.
		Still another went to the extreme in carelessness, carrying the caterpillar in a very careless way and making a nest which was a very poor affair.
		Fabre, the French entomologist, who studied the same insects, considered that they were inspired by autonnatically perfect instincts which can never have varied to any appreciable extent from the beginning of time.
	www.insectguide.net /solitarywasps.html (1266 words)

	Literature Cited
		The Rev. William Kirby, M.A. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 2:133-135.
		Gilbert, P. A Compendium of the Biographical Literature on Deceased Entomologists.
		Directory of systematic entomologists and acarologists in the People’s Republic of China.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/rider/Pentatomoidea/Biographical/lit_cited.htm (2345 words)

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		Cresson, entomologist, was one of the founders of the
		John L. LeConte, entomologist, was a member ane employee at the Academy.
		Roswell Carter Williams was an elected member of the Academy in 1901, then Chairman of the Committee on Accounts, 1922-1924, and Research Associate in the Department of Entomology, 1922-1946.
	www.acnatsci.org /~spamer/portraits286.xml (1208 words)

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		His interpretation of the distinguishing characters of insects for the purposes of classification has excited the warmest approval of entomologists at home and abroad; while his agreeable narrative of their wonderful transformations and habits, teeming with analyses and anecdote, has a charm for almost every kind of reader.
		The charm, based on substantial knowledge of the subject, which these letters impart, has caused them to be studied with an interest never before excited by any work on natural history,--and they have served for the model of many an interesting and instructive volume.
		Whether William Kirby or William Spence had the more meritorious share in the composition of these Letters, has never been ascertained; for each, in the plenitude of his esteem and love for the other, renounced all claim, in favor of his coadjutor, to whatever portion of the matter might be most valued.
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		Bodenheimer (1931), however, noted that several earlier entomologists recognized the essence of parasitoidism.
		> (1855) was the State Entomologist of New York who is recorded as the first entomologist to seriously consider the transfer of beneficial insects from one country to another for the control of an agricultural pest.
		4, 1826) of An Introduction to Entomology (Kirby and Spence 1815) we learn that it was recognized that true fungi grew in the bodies of insects as saprophytes and possibly as parasites.
	faculty.ucr.edu /~legneref/taxonomy/museum2.htm (3305 words)

	Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (L) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Accompanied William Maclure to the U.S. Teacher and engraver in Philadelphia.
		Taught drawing at New Harmony from 1826 - ?, and made engravings from Thomas Say's (entomologist) drawings.
		From then til 1837, when he returned to France, he made extensive studies of the wildlife, especially fish, of the Mississippi valley.
	www.jmisc.net /BIOG-L.htm (1926 words)

	Adams, M
		Cockayne, E. Hawkins, F. Lees, B. Whitehouse and H. Williams· 1937-38.
		Entomologist 70: 241-46, 265-72; 71: 13-17, 35-38, 54-59.
		Williams, C. The times of activity of certain nocturnal insects, chiefly Lepidoptera, as indicated by a light-trap.
	bcrc.bio.umass.edu /kunkel/Moths/sargent/lon_bibliography.html (1986 words)

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		One Bishop and an accomplice named Williams were hanged in London in 1831, on their own confession, for a like series of murders.
		It was at about this time that he entered the business of Blundell, Spence, and Co., oil and colour makers, which had been founded in Hull in 1811 by Henry Blundell and his brother-in-law William Spence, the entomologist.
		The charity in which he took most active interest was the Royal Maternity, of which he was many years chairman, and an oil portrait of him, subscribed for in 1885 as a token of the regard and respect in which he was held by the committee, hangs in the Board Room of the Charity.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /carole.johnson40/CJlongstaff10.htm (18126 words)

	A.C. Seward, "Darwin and Modern Science," 1909 - Chapter 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By their form and colour, this insect may pass unobserved by those birds, which otherwise would soon extirpate a species so little able to elude its pursuers, and this juicy little Mesembryanthemum may generally escape the notice of cattle and wild animals." (Loc.
		If the older naturalists who thought and spoke with Burchell of "the intention of Nature" and the adaptation of beings "to each other, and to the situations in which they are found," could have conceived the possibility of evolution, they must have been led, as Darwin was, by the same considerations to Natural Selection.
		The student of insects, who is so familiar with this very form of protective resemblance in larvae, and even perfect insects, will not be inclined to consider the suggestion far-fetched.) The observation is recorded in one of the manuscript journals kept by the great explorer during his journey.
	www.stephenjaygould.org /library/modern-science/chapter15.html (8614 words)

	The National Archives \| National Register of Archives \| Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
		Spence, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers (1874-1955) Scottish Nationalist and Journalist (3)
		Spence, Nicol (c 1732-1744) Church of Scotland Agent (1)
		Spilsbury, William Holden (1803-1877) Librarian and Historian of Lincoln's Inn (1)
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_SP.htm (1114 words)

	Science in the 19th Century Periodical
		In the background another (human) entomologist chases after butterflies with a net.
		The caption explains that the original design of the illustration was 'furnished to us by R. Salter, aged 14'.
		William T Brande Brande, William Thomas (1788–1866) DSB
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