Smith, Frederick, 1805-1879
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found: Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum, 1855:t.p. (Frederick Smith, M.E.S.)
found: OCLC, 15 Jun. 2010(hdg.: Smith, Frederick, 1806?-1879)
found: OCLC, October 16, 2013(usage: Frederick Smith; F. Smith)
found: AntWiki, web site, viewed October 16, 2013(Frederick Smith, 1805-1879; born in London in 1805; entomologist and engraver; appointed curator of the Collections and Library of The Entomological Society of London; worked in the Zoology Department of the British Museum; abandoning his art profession for science Frederick still continued engraving for British Museum Catalogues of Hymenoptera and all illustrations of his own papers were executed by himself; was the first entomologist to publish descriptions of more than a hundred ant species that still hold validity; died in 1879, at the age of 73, in London)
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2010-06-15: new
2013-11-21: revised
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