Francis David Morice was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera

Hymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and...

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The Reverend Francis David Morice was a noted theologist

Theology

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 and linguist who wrote Stories in Attic Greek

Attic Greek

Attic Greek is the prestige dialect of Ancient Greek that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. Of the ancient dialects, it is the most similar to later Greek, and is the standard form of the language studied in courses of "Ancient Greek". It is sometimes included in Ionic.- Origin and range...

( London, Rivingtons, 1883), still in print.

His work in entomology involved extensive travel. Morice made collecting expeditions to Egypt

Egypt

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 , Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, Asia Minor

Asia Minor

Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

 , Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...

 and Persia.

Morice was President of the Royal Entomological Society (1911-1912).

Insects named in his honour include

• Ceratina moricei Friese, 1899
• Colletes moricei Saunders, 1904
• Hedychridium moricei (Du Buysson, 1904)
• Hylaeus moricei (Friese, 1898)
• Mesoleptidea moricei (Schmiedeknecht, 1913)
• Metadrosus moricei (Pic, 1904)

Works

Partial List

• 1897 New or little-known Sphegidae from Egypt. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1897:301-316, pl. VI. Correction p 434.
• 1900 Descriptions of new or doubtful species of the genus Ammophila Kirby from Algeria.Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 5:64-70.
• 1900 An excursion to Egypt, Asia Minor, &c. in search of Aculeate Hymenoptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 36:164-172. “We had a sort of a pic-nic, organized by Dr. Dinkler on an island in the Nile. This island is known to the Doctor’s friends as Adelen-Insel – having been so named in playful compliment to Mme. A. Dinkler, his wife, and this name is immortalized in some recent German works on Egyptian Hymenoptera. It will not, however, be found in maps or other directories”
• 1903. New Hymenoptera Aculeata taken by the Swedish zoological expedition to the White Nile in the spring of 1901. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7) 12:610-615.
• 1911. Hymenoptera aculeata collected in Algeria. The Sphegidae (Being Part V of the work commenced by the late Edward Saunders
  Edward Saunders (entomologist)
  Edward Saunders was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.He was a businessman associated with Lloyds Bank studying entomology in his spare time. His Catalogus Buprestidarum of 1871 was 'a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has...
  
  , F.R.S., in Trans. Entomol. Soc., 1901, p. 515).Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1911:62-135.
• 1915 with John Hartley Durrant
  John Hartley Durrant
  John Hartley Durrant was an English entomologist who specialsed in Lepidoptera.Durrant was an authority nomenclature.He was Lord Walsingham's secretary and had charge of his collections...
  
   The authorship and first publication of the "Jurinean
  Louis Jurine
  Louis Jurine was a Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist mainly interested in entomology. He lived in Geneva.-Surgeon:Studies of surgery in Paris. Jurine quickly acquires a very great reputation of expert, well beyond Geneva...
  
  " Genera of Hymenoptera: being a reprint of a long-lost work by Panzer
  Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
  Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer was a German botanist and entomologist.He was born at Etzelwang in the Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg.A physician, he practised at Hersbruck...
  
  , with a translation into English, an introduction, and bibliographical and critical notes. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London1914:339-436.
• 1917. Further notes on the "Jurinean" Genera of Hymenoptera, correcting errors and omissions in a paper on that subject published in Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1914, pp. 339-436. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1916:432-442.
• 1921.Annotated lists of Aculeate Hymenoptera (except Heterogyna) and Chrysids recently collected in Mesopotamia and North-West Persia.Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 27:816-828.