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    Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe (17 March 1870 – 22 April 1951) was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic...
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    Agreement The Verderers of the New Forest AG00300016 Donisthorpe, Horace St. John Kelly; Donisthorpe, Horace St John Kelly (1915). British ants, their life-history...
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  • Donisthorpe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951), British myrmecologist and coleopterist Richard Donisthorpe...
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    native to the British Isles, and although rare, it has been taken by Horace Donisthorpe in a number of localities on England's southern coast, including Sandown...
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  • of British ants were carried out by such notable myrmecologists as Horace Donisthorpe and Sir John Lubbock. List of bees of Great Britain List of wasps...
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    previously existed in the New Forest, and such eminent myrmecologists as Horace Donisthorpe recorded this species there and in Parkhurst Forest on the Isle of...
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    Leptacinus intermedius (category Taxa named by Horace Donisthorpe)
    Leptacinus intermedius is a European rove beetle, described in 1935 by Horace Donisthorpe. Like most staphylinids, L. intermedius and its larvae are predatory...
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    the food and observing how it spread in the colony. Some, such as Horace Donisthorpe, worked on the systematics of ants. This tradition continued in many...
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  • March 1799) was an English cleric and naturalist. He was described by Horace Donisthorpe as "the father of British myrmecology", the branch of entomology dealing...
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    enthusiast. Donisthorpe was born in Leeds, on 24 March 1847. His father was George E. Donisthorpe, also an inventor; his brother, Horace Donisthorpe, was a...
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    by its tendency to hold its gaster almost vertically when moving. Horace Donisthorpe commented: "When the sun is obscured these ants immediately disappear...
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    bog ant, which was discovered there in the early 20th century by Horace Donisthorpe. The wetter areas contain the rare and diminutive bog orchid, Hammarbya...
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    on the original heath in this location that British myrmecologist Horace Donisthorpe collected many of the ants from which he produced so many observations...
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    Rannoch-rush, named after the moor. It was frequently visited by Horace Donisthorpe, who collected many unusual species of ants on the moor and surrounding...
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  • Robert Crotch (also U.S.A.) Roy Crowson John Curtis Charles Darwin Horace Donisthorpe William Weekes Fowler Alexander Fry Eleanor Glanville Frederick DuCane...
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    fugax (Latr.), a thief ant which was recorded there several times by Horace Donisthorpe. The ant Ponera coarctata has also been taken from this location....
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    Horace Donisthorpe, with whom he stayed in Switzerland; his ardent socialist views frequently caused political arguments between the two. In Horace Donisthorpe's...
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    rufibarbis, although the former's red markings are far less conspicuous. Horace Donisthorpe comments: Forel points out that [Formica fusca var.] rubescens [=F...
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  • the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Horace Donisthorpe in 1917, the species is endemic to Singapore. Donisthorpe, H. 1917d. Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea)...
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  • and archaeologist, professor of classical literature and geology Horace Donisthorpe, entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist Peter North, principal...
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    Henry Deacon (1822–1876), chemist Paul Dirac (1902–1984), physicist Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist Arthur Eddington...
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  • optimization algorithms Ant mill Murray S. Blum (1929–2015) Barry Bolton Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951) Auguste Forel (1848–1931) William Gould (1715–1799) Bert...
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    Paraparatrechina (category Taxa named by Horace Donisthorpe)
    Paraparatrechina was first described as a subgenus of Paratrechina by Donisthorpe (1947). LaPolla et al. (2010a) elevated the formerly synonymized subgenus...
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  • – Alfred Adler (died 1937), Austrian psychotherapist. March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe (died 1951), English entomologist. May 20 – Arthur Korn (died 1945)...
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  • producer Horace Dobell (1828–1917), English doctor and medical writer Horace Dodge (1868–1920), American car manufacturer Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951)...
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    shape of the spines. A species described from Travancore as weberi by Horace Donisthorpe in 1943, was identified as being identical to gracilior by Barry Bolton...
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    Dolichoderus. Described by Horace Donisthorpe in 1920, the fossils of the species were found in the United Kingdom. Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene...
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  • States Lepidoptera Carl August Dohrn 1806 1892 Germany Coleoptera Horace Donisthorpe 1870 1951 United Kingdom Coleoptera; Hymenoptera: Formicidae Charles...
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    March 13 – Seale Harris, American physician (d. 1957) March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe, English entomologist (d. 1951) March 20 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck...
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    and coleopterist Horace Donisthorpe, it was to Wheeler whom Donisthorpe dedicated his first major book on ants in 1915. Donisthorpe and Wheeler also frequently...
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