The outstanding Russian lepidopterist Sergei Nikolaevich Alpheraky, a Honorary Member of the RES, was a contemporary of N.…
English naturalist and explorer. He and Alfred Russel Wallace left England in 1848 to explore and collect insects in the…
Alexander Kirilow Drenowski was born on 22 July 1879 in Ruse. He graduated secondary school in Ruse, and higher school in…
Henry John Elwes was one of the greatest traveller-naturalists who have done so much to increase our knowledge of natural…
Hans Fruhstorfer was born in Passau, Germany on 7 March 1866. He was a man of genial disposition and of untiring energy and…
Frederick DuCane Godman was one of the great naturalists in the mid-Victorian epoch. As a boy he appears to have been delicate,…
A great contribution to Russian and world entomology was made by Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grshimailo, a prominent lepidopterist,…
Yuri P. Korshunov was born on 22 September 1933 in Chernorechka Village near Novosibirsk. The family soon moved to Novosibirsk.…
Born at Rennes in 1845, Charles Oberthuer was a son of the founder of the celebrated printing firm which bore his name, and…
Henry Rowland-Brown was born at Woodridings, Pinner, on 19 May 1865. He was educated at Rugby; at school he was a noted athlete,…