Joseph Sidebotham: vicissitudes of a Victorian collector
2015 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 197-210
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Keyword(s):
Joseph Sidebotham (1824–1885) was a Manchester cotton baron whose natural history collections are now in the Manchester Museum. In addition to collecting he suggested a method for identifying and classifying Lepidoptera and investigated variation within species as well as species limits. With three close collaborators, he is credited with discovering many species new to Britain in both Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. A suspicion of fraud attaches to these claims. The evidence is not clear-cut in the Lepidoptera, but a possible reason is suggested why Sidebotham, as an amateur in the increasingly professional scientific world, might have engaged in deceit.
2009 ◽
Vol 16
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pp. 84-94
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2014 ◽
Vol 36
(2)
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pp. 88-108
1994 ◽
Vol 37
(2)
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pp. 83-89
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