scholarly journals Life in two countries but one home land – Béla Lipthay (1892-1974) the entomologist

2014 ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
András Bozsik
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Life Time ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
World War ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Entomological Society ◽  
Agricultural Entomology ◽  
Home Village

Béla Lipthay lepidopterologist, entomologist, museologist, agriculturist, hussar lieutenant, life-saving Roman Catholic, descendant of the historical family Lipthay de Kisfalud et Lubelle did a long way from his home village Lovrin to Szécsény, the one-time land of his ancestors. His life coincided with the disintegration of the historical Hungary, and the most serious trials of the Hungarian society, culture and spirit. These changes affected him as a member of Hungarian aristocracy many times and in fact wanted to destroy him. The fortune of the ancestors have been swept away by the storms of the wars and confiscated but the human strength of character, the consciousness, the talent, the diligence, the sanctuary of faith have remained. All these made him possible to survive, to do his everyday hard creative work, which gained him affection and respect of the people living around him. Lipthay Béla was mainly lepidopterist and dealt with the the species of Hungary. Place of his collection was first his native country, the Banat, and the area of the Southern Carpatian Montain, and after 1944 Nógrád county (Szécsény, Balassagyarmat, Nógrádszakál, Ipolytarnóc, Rimóc, Ludányhalászi etc.). The collected species belonged to Macrolepidoptera but he dealt also with the moths. During his life time he prepared a collection of 60000 individuals and maintained them until his passing away. Great part of this collection can be found at the zoological cabinet of Natural History Museum in Budapest. He discovered many species new for the Hungarian fauna such as e.g. Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829), and described a new species (Chamaesphecia sevenari Lipthay, 1961) which later proved to be a synonym of Chamaesphecia nigrifrons (Le Cerf, 1911). He knew well the most famous collectors and specialists of the age. After the first World War he worked together with Frigyes König, László Diószeghy, Jenő Teleki, Norman D. Riley (leading entomologist of the British Museum at London, secretary of the Royal Entomological Society), Brisbane C. S. Warren ( member of the Royal Entomological Society), Lionel W. Rothschild (the most important private collector) and many excellent lepidopterists. After the second World War he was well known and respected by the Hungarian entomologists and lepidopterists: he was a friend of Lajos Kovács, the distinguished lepidopterist and Zoltán Kaszab, the eminent entomologist. He had a good relationship with such renowned Hungarian zoologists and entomologists like Gyula Éhik, László Gozmány, László Issekutz, László Bezsilla and László Móczár. He colleted also Hymenoptera, Diptera and capricorn beetles to be found in Hungarian and foreign collections Natural History Museum, (London), a Szekler National Museum (Marosvásárhely). He dealt with agricultural entomology because he was an experienced agriculturist as far as he had the opportunity to do that. He painted wonderful agricultural entomology posters and organized expositions e.g. on the pests of industrial crops and hunting at Balassagyarmat and Salgótarján.

VIII.—On a Pygidium of Bronteus from the Devonian of Gerolstein, Eifel, preserved in the Collection of the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall in the Athenæum, Barnstaple.

1910 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 407-410
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Deep Interest

Many years ago the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall, F.G.S., of Pilton, Barnstaple, specially devoted his energies to the geology and palæontology of the Devonian rocks of North Devon, and in addition to a set of fossils acquired from him, now in the British Museum (Natural History), he left a series of local fossils to the Museum in the Athenæum at Barnstaple. This collection has been kindly curated by Mr. J. G. Hamling, F.G.S., of The Close, Barnstaple, North Devon, who takes a deep interest in the geology of the district. Mr. Hamling has called my attention to an interesting specimen in this collection which proves to be a pygidium of Bronteus, collected by the late Mr. Townshend M. Hall in the Devonian rocks of Gerolstein in the Eifel, which country he had visited many years ago in company with the late Mr. John Edward Lee, F.G.S., of Torquay. In remembrance of that excursion Mr. Hall had presented the counterpart of this fossil to Mr. J. E. Lee, and it was supposed to be in this gentleman's collection, but it cannot now be found. There is, I believe, a good cast of the fossil in the Townshend Hall Collection in the Natural History Museum.

scholarly journals Upper Ordovician trilobites of zonal value in south-east Shropshire

1949 ◽  
Vol 136 (883) ◽  
pp. 291-315 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Related Species ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Upper Ordovician ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Section

The following descriptions of Shropshire trilobites, mostly collected from urchison’s (1839) type section of the Caradoc Series, are from Bancroft manu-sripts which will ultimately be deposited in the British Museum (Natural History), here the Bancroft Collection of fossils is housed. As far as possible the original xt has been preserved, apart from material necessary to bring it up to date and tsertion of references to various publications. Since in Bancroft’s paper on ryptolithinae (1929) the illustrations were reproduced from drawings, it has been bought well, as suggested by Richter (1930, pp. 556 - 557), to refigure some of the species from photographs. A few of Bancroft’s unpublished trilobites have been ealt with by Reed (1932) and Shirley (1936). In these cases only a minimum of reference is now given, but Bancroft’s illustrations have been retained. A recent paper by Harper (1947) describes some related species from the Lower Longvillian if Caernarvonshire. It may be added that Dr C. J. Stubblefield has given help with the text of the present publication. He, Mr R. Baker and Mr W. H. C. Ramsbottom searched for the type specimens in the Natural History Museum. Thanks to their co-operation, most of the figured examples have now been identified with the photographs.

Confirmation of the identity of the type host of the louse Halipeurus fallacis (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
RICARDO L. PALMA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Type Host ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
A New Species

Alexander (1954: 489) recorded a petrel (Aves: Procellariiformes) captured alive on board a ship in the Indian Ocean by Mr W.W.A. Phillips who, after removing some lice, liberated it the following morning. Alexander (1954) identified that petrel as the species “Pterodroma aterrima Bonaparte”, now placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. The lice were kept in the collection of the then British Museum (Natural History), now the Natural History Museum, London, England. Jouanin (1955) published a new species of petrel from the Indian Ocean as Bulweria fallax. Jouanin (1957: 19) discussed the identity of the petrel identified by Alexander (1954) as Pterodroma aterrima, stating that the descriptive data given by Alexander (1954) did not clearly fit either P. aterrima or B. fallax. However, considering the geographical coordinates where the bird was captured, Jouanin (1957) believed it was more likely Bulweria fallax. 

The internal features of the Rhynchonellid brachiopod Propriopugnus Brunton, 1984, from the lower Carboniferous of England

1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman M. Savage ◽  
Risa M. Corlett
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Museum Specimen ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
History Museum

As part of the preparation for reviewing the Paleozoic rhynchonellids for the revised brachiopod treatise, one of us (NMS) requested help from Dr. Howard Brunton, of the Natural History Museum (British Museum, London) in obtaining type material of Propriopugnus pugnus (Martin) to further investigate the internal features. Dr. Brunton kindly sent a Natural History Museum specimen that he considers to be close to the lectotype. This specimen has been photographed and sectioned, and it is described below.

Zoological material for John Lawson's “Compleat History” of Carolina (1710–1711): specimens recorded in Hans Sloane's catalogues

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-345
Author(s):  
Marcus B. Simpson ◽  
Sallie W. Simpson ◽  
David W. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
Natural History Collections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Museum Staff

As part of his plan for a “Compleat History” of the region, John Lawson, Surveyor-General of North Carolina, collected plants and animals in 1710 and 1711 from Virginia and North Carolina and shipped them to James Petiver in London. After Petiver's death in 1718, his collection was acquired by Hans Sloane and subsequently incorporated into the natural history collections in the British Museum. The Sloane herbarium, now at the Natural History Museum, London, contains more than 300 previously reported botanical specimens attributed to Lawson, but details of his zoological collecting have not heretofore been documented. Two of Sloane's manuscript catalogues of “Fossils” include at least 34 specimens that appear to have been among those sent by Lawson to Petiver. These Lawson specimens were probably discarded or destroyed by British Museum staff in the 1700s or early 1800s. The Sloane catalogues nevertheless provide evidence that Lawson had begun work on his ambitious plan for a natural history of Carolina. Lawson's untimely death in September 1711 brought an abrupt end to the project, and Petiver apparently never used the zoological material he received from Lawson.

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