Entomological Magazine
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The Entomological Magazine is a publication devoted to entomology
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

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The Entomological Magazine was published between September 1832 and October 1838 by the Society of Entomologists of London
Society of Entomologists of London
The Society of Entomologists of London was one of a series of brief-lived entomological societies based in London.The members met to exhibit, identify and exchange, sell or purchase insects which were sometimes very expensive as were books. Entomology was limited to the wealthy...

. The editor was Edward Newman aided by Francis Walker
Francis Walker (entomologist)
Francis Walker was an English entomologist. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms....

.The work includes reviews of entomological literature, articles and systematic papers in which new species are described.Contributors include John Curtis
John Curtis (entomologist)
John Curtis was an English entomologist and illustrator.-Biography:Curtis was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles Morgan Curtis...

, Edward Doubleday
Edward Doubleday
Edward Doubleday was an English entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.He is best known for Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J.O. The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habits and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus....

 ("Communications on the Natural History of North America."), Alexander Henry Haliday
Alexander Henry Haliday
Alexander Henry Haliday, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday and Alexis Heinrich Haliday sometimes Halliday , was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera and Thysanoptera, but Haliday worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology.Haliday...

 (notably An essay on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera...of Britain which correspond with the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus), George Robert Waterhouse
George Robert Waterhouse
George Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist.In 1833, Waterhouse was elected as the Royal Entomological Society of London's librarian and curator of insects and records....

, John Obadiah Westwood
John Obadiah Westwood
John Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....

, William John Swainson, Francis Walker
Francis Walker (entomologist)
Francis Walker was an English entomologist. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms....

 ( notably Monographia Chalciditum
Monographia Chalciditum
Monographia Chalciditum by Francis Walker, published in two volumes in 1839, was a founding work of entomology, introducing new genera of chalcidoid Hymenoptera later to be ranked as families. The work is a compilation of descriptions published in the Entomological Magazine...

 ), George Rudd
G. T. Rudd
G.T. Rudd was an English entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.Rudd was a cleric who lived in Wiltshire. His captures of beetles are mentioned by James Francis Stephens, John Curtis and Alexander Henry Haliday and he collected insects with George Samouelle...

, William Edward Shuckard
William Edward Shuckard
William Edward Shuckard was an English bookseller and entomologist.He was also librarian of the Royal Society and translated Manual of Entomology Hermann Burmeister .He was a specialist in Hymenoptera but worked onColeoptera in his early years).-Publications:Partial list* A Description of the...

, James Charles Dale
James Charles Dale
James Charles Dale was a wealthy English naturalist who devoted almost all of his adult life to entomology.James Dale was the son of wealthy landowners. He received his education at Cambridge University receiving his MA in 1818...

, James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens was an English entomologist.-Biography:Stephens was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and studied at Christ's Hospital.He was employed in the Admiralty office, Somerset House, from 1807 to 1845...

 and Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford....



The Entomological Magazine was was discontinued following controversy. Newman writes a "Valedictory Address in Volume 5.

The Entomologist

The Entomological Magazine was succeeded by The Entomologist published in London by Edward Newman between 1840 and [1869] in four volumes - Volume 1 November 1840-October 1842;Volume 2 May 1864-December 1865; volume 3 January 1866-November 1867; Volume 4 Januuary 1868-December 1869. This in turn was succeeded by "Newman's" Entomologist published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. at London [1869-1876] and from that date until ? as, once more The Entomologist.

External links

  • BHL Digitised text of the Entomological Magazine
  • BHL Scans of The Entomologist Volumes 1-4
  • BHL Scans of Newman's Entomologist Volumes 5- 9 1870-1876
  • BHL Scans of The Entomologist Volumes 10-55 1877 - 1922
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