Register entry 137 - George Blundell Longstaff


Visited the Bell Farm on Sept. 23, 1884 - George Blundell Longstaff (1849-1921) was an entomologist, author, local politician, and a member of the British Association delegation that visited the Bell Farm on Sept 23 1884. He married his first wife - Sara Leam Dixon - in 1875; and his second wife - Mary Jane Donald - in 1906.

In 1912 he published a book entitled: Butterfly-hunting in many lands - Notes of a field naturalist.


SOURCES:

  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2415119/?page=1 - 1921 British Medical Journal obit

  • http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Longstaff,_George_Blundell_(1849-1921)

  • http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2798

  • http://london.wikia.com/wiki/George_Blundell_Longstaff

  • Sara bio: http://www.mytrees.com/ancestry-family/sa000378-2149-5720/Sara-Dixon-Born-1851-in-Leamington.html

  • Mary Jane bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Longstaff

  • https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/147185#/summary - book on BUTTERFLIES, 1912
    or:

  • https://archive.org/details/butterflyhunting00long/page/n7 - book on Butterflies, 1912

RESEARCH BY:

Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon; Bill Pinfold, England; and Frank Korvemaker, Regina


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