Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope (3 January 1797 – 15 April 1862) was an
John Obadiah Westwood
.
Biography
topographical engravings (70,000); and natural history engravings (20,000). Hope travelled across Europe and his studies of fish and crustaceans resulted in Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di molti altri del Mediterraneo (1851). His extensive insect collections, were offered to the University of Oxford in 1849,[1] but this was initially not accepted until 1850. A new museum was constructed in 1855 and he was also awarded an honorary degree in that year. In 1860, he founded and endowed a professorship of zoology, nominating J.O. Westwood as the first Hope professor. Westwood also curated Hope’s collections.[2][3][4]
Hope described the larvae of flies that sometimes infect humans and he called the condition as "myasis" (now spelt in medical literature as myiasis) in 1840.[5]
Hope's interest in insects began around 1817. He was chiefly interested in the
Entomological Society of London of which he was subsequently treasurer, president and vice-president at different times. Hope collaborated with many naturalists of the period, including Charles Darwin.[2][6]
Works
Scholia has a profile for Frederick William Hope (Q541070).
Hope published numerous papers, including some 60 papers on entomology of which the majority were on the Coleoptera, many describing new genera and species (British and world). A complete list is given in Pettigrew (1874).[3]
His books included the Coleopterists Manual, containing the Lamellicorn beetles of Linnaeus and Fabricius in three volumes published from 1837 onwards:[7]
- The Coleopterist's Manual
- Containing The Lamellicorn Insects Of Linneus And Fabricius. Bohn, London 1837; digital
- Containing The Predaceous Land And Water Beetles Of Linnaeus And Fabricius. Bohn, London 1838; digital
- Containing Various Families, Genera, And Species, Of Beetles, Recorded By Linneus And Fabricius : Also Descriptions Of Newly Discovered And Unpublished Insects. Bridgewater, London 1840
- Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di molti altri del Mediterraneo. Fr. Azzolino, Neapel 1851; digital
Two of his collections have been published:
- Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers and Essayists, Formed by the Late John Thomas Hope, Esq., and Presented to the Bodleian Library by the Late Frederick William Hope (Nabu Press, 2010) ISBN 1-147-16630-7
- Catalogue of a Collection of Early Newspapers and Essayists: Formed by the Late John Thomas Hope, Esq., and Presented to the Bodleian Library by the Late ... Frederick William Hope, M.a., D.C.L (1865) (Cornell University Library, 2009) ISBN 1-112-18432-5
References
- ^ a b "Life Collections: entomology collections database". UK: Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13718. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b Pettigrew, T. J. (1874). "Obituary notice of the Rev. Fred. Wm. Hope". In Westwood, J. O. (ed.). Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis. pp. xvii–xxi.
- ^ Westwood, John Obadiah (1862). "Memoir of the Late Rev. Frederick William Hope". The Gentleman's Magazine: 785–788.
- ^ Hope, F.W. (1840). "On insect and their larvae occasionally found in human body". Trans. Ent. Soc. London. 2: 256–271.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Smith, Audrey Z. (1986). A History of the Hope Entomological Collections in the University Museum, Oxford with lists of Archives and Collections. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
External links
- Journal of the British Archaeological Association. British Archaeological Association, Serie 1, Band 19, 1863, S. 157-162; online
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