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John Hartley Durrant (10 January 1863 in Hitchin – 18 January 1928 in Putney) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Durrant was an authority nomenclature. He was Lord Walsingham's secretary and had charge of his collections. When these were left to the Natural History Museum, London Walsingham provided funds for Durrant to continue to curate it. He was author, with Lionel Walter Rothschild, of ''Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera.'' Tring, Zoological Museum (1915) and very many scientific papers on Lepidoptera. In 1914 Durrant began a collaboration with Francis David Morice in a significant nomenclatural work entitled The authorship and first publication of the "Jurinean" Genera of Hymenoptera: being a reprint of a long-lost work by Panzer, with a translation into English, an introduction, and bibliographical and critical notes. '' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1914:339-436 (corrections, additions''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1916:432-442. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. His collections are divided between the Natural History Museum, London and the Hope Department at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. ==References== *Anonym 1928 (J. H. ) ''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (3) 64 67. *Busck, A. 1928 (J. H. ) ''Proc. ent. Soc. Wash''. 30 40. *Collin, J. E. 1929 (J. H. ) ''Proc. Ent. Soc. London''. *Tams, W. H. T. 1928 (J. H. ) ''Nature'' 121 214-215. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Hartley Durrant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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