John Obadiah Westwood 579421 221223124 2008-06-23T16:17:01Z 194.176.201.29 [[Image:John Obadiah Westwood.jpg|right|thumb|John Obadiah Westwood]] '''John Obadiah Westwood''' ([[22 December]] [[1805]] – [[2 January]] [[1893]]) was an [[England|English]] [[entomologist]] and [[archaeologist]] also noted for his artistic talents. Born in [[Sheffield]], he studied to be a [[lawyer]] but abandoned that for his scientific interests. He became a [[curator]] and later [[professor]] at [[Oxford University]], having been nominated by this friend and patron the Reverend [[Frederick William Hope]], whose donation was the basis of the [[Hope Department of Entomology|Hope Collection]] at Oxford. Westwood was a Fellow of the [[Linnean Society]] and president of the [[Royal Entomological Society of London|Entomological Society of London]]. == Works == partial list General *Class Insecta.in Griffith, E. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. Whittaker, London. 796 pp (1832). *''An introduction to the modern classification of insects'' Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. (-1839) *Synopsis of the genera of British Insects. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. 158 pp. (1840) [http://antbase.org/ants/publications/0382/0382.pdf] * ''The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology'' (1848) *''Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis: or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects, for the most part coloured, in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. [[Frederick William Hope|F.W. Hope]]''. London: McMillan & Co., i-xxiv, 205 pp., 40 pls (1874). [[Hymenoptera]] *Description of several British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. ''London & Edinburgh Philos. Mag. J. Sci''. 1: 127-129 (1832). *Further notices of the British parasitic hymenopterous insects; together with the "Transactions of a fly with a long tail," observed by Mr. E. W. Lewis; and additional observations. ''Magazine of Natural History'' 6: 414-421. (1833). *Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. ''London & Edinburgh Philos. Mag. J. Sci''. 2: 443-445 (1833). [http://128.146.250.117/pdfs/725/725.pdf ]] *Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. ''London & Edinburgh Philos. Mag. J. Sci.'' 3: 342-344 1833.. *"...Hymenopterous Insects, which Mr Westwood regarded as new to science." ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 3: 68-72. (1835) [http://antbase.org/ants/publications/3061/3061.pdf pdf] *Characters of new genera and species of hymenopterous insects.. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 3: 51-72 (1835). [http://antbase.org/ants/publications/0382/0382.pdf pdf] *Observations on the genus Typhlopone, with descriptions of several exotic species of ants. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 81-89'' (1840)[http://128.146.250.117/pdfs/851/851.pdf.] *On the Evaniidae and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (1)7: 535-538 (1841). *Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. ''Arcana Entomologica'' 1(5): 73-80 (1842) [[http://antbase.org/ants/publications/8146/8146.pdf pdf] *On Evania and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 3(4): 237-278 (1843). *Description of a new species of the hymenopterous genus Aenictus, belonging to the Dorylidae. ''Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London'' 1840-1846: 85. (1843). [http://antbase.org/ants/publications/3063/3063.pdf pdf] *Description of a new dorylideous insect from South Africa, belonging to the genus Aenictus. ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 4: 237-238 (1847). *Description of the "Driver" ants, described in the preceding article. ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 5: 16-18 (1847).. *Descriptions of some new species of exotic Hymenoptera belonging to Evania and the allied genera, being a supplement to a memoir on those insects published in the third volume of the Transactions of the Entomological Society. ''Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London'' (2)1: 213-234. (1851). *Descriptions of some new species of short-tongued bees belonging to the genus Nomia. ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1875: 207-222. (1875). [[fossil insects]] *. Contributions to fossil entomology. ''Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London'' 10: 378-396 1854. [http://antbase.org/ants/publications/3066/3066.pdf] == External links == *[http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/westwood/ John Obadiah Westwood]. *[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections-library/collections-and-library-index.html Manuscripts at the [[Natural History Museum]]] *''Arcana entomologica'', 1845 at Oxford Digital Library: [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi01--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&c=munahi01&cl=CL1.1&d=munahi001-aaa Volume One]; [http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi01--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1isoZz-8859Zz-1-0&a=d&c=munahi01&cl=CL1.1&d=munahi001-aab Volume Two]. {{entomologist-stub}} {{archaeologist-stub}} {{UK-scientist-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Westwood, John Obadiah}} [[Category:1805 births]] [[Category:1893 deaths]] [[Category:English entomologists]] [[Category:Myrmecologists]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Members of the Linnean Society of London]] [[Category:English curators]] [[Category:Fellows of Colleges of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:People from Sheffield]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society of London]] [[de:John Obadiah Westwood]] [[fr:John Obadiah Westwood]] [[sv:John Obadiah Westwood]]