Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (September 1, 1813- June 20, 1893) was a Cornish entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera. He was born in Penzance Cornwall and trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Appointed surgeon in the Navy he served on Australian, West Indian and Mediterranean stations. He married a Miss Mary Glasson of Cornwall and settled at Trewhiddle near St Austell where his wife's property produced china clay. Widowed in 1851 he settled in London devoting himself to natural history and entomology in particular. The results of collecting trips to Europe, North Africa and the Lower Amazons were poor and Pascoe worked mainly on insects collected by others. His entomological papers listed and described species collected by Alfred Russel Wallace (in Longicornia Malayana), Robert Templeton and other assiduous collectors but not prolific writers on systematic entomology.