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George Robert Crotch (1842–1874) was a British entomologist. Born in Cambridge, England 1842 Crotch became interested in insects, especially Coleoptera, whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge University. He worked at the University Library, Cambridge. He collected insects in Europe and in the Autumn of 1872, he left England on an entomological tour of the world, initially arriving at Philadelphia. In the Spring of 1873 he arrived in California, where he collected insects until early July, when he traveled to British Columbia. In 1873 he accepted a position as assistant from Louis Agassiz at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology with Hermann August Hagen. He made collections of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera during 1873 in California, Oregon, and Vancouver Island, as well as various areas of south-central British Columbia.〔Calhoun, John V. 2015. Butterflies collected by George R. Crotch in N America in 1873, with notes on the identity of ''Pamphila manitoba'' and a type locality clarification for ''Argynnis rhodope''. News of the Lepidopterists' Society. 57:135-143. http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/nls/2010s/2015/2015_v57_n3.pdf.〕 Tragically, he died of tuberculosis in 1874 at age 32. Crotch was the author of a number of books, including ''Checklist of the Coleoptera of America'' (1873) and ''A revision of the Coleopterous family Coccinellidae'' (1874). His Coleoptera collection from the Azores is in the British Museum, London while the European Coleoptera, Erotylidae and Coccinellidae were left to the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/collections.archives/histories.archives/ )〕 He was an authority on the Coccinellidae (Ladybird beetles) and Erotylidae of the world. ==References== Smart, J. and Wager, B. George Robert Crotch, 1842–1874: a bibliography with a biographical note. ''JSBNH'' 8 (3): 244–248 (November 1977). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Robert Crotch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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