Adam White (zoologist)
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Adam White was a Scottish zoologist.
Portrait by Norman Macbeth, 1846.
John O. Westwood
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John Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist noted for his artistic talents. He published several illustrated works on insects and antiquities. He was among the first entomologi
Adam White (zoologist)
…first wife in 1861. He remarried in 1862, and had at least three children by his second wife. He died intestate in Pollokshields on 30 December 1878. John Obadiah Westwood named the insect species Taphroderes whitii in White's honour, after White pointed a specimen of that same insect out to Westwood during a visit to the…
Westwood, c. 1850
Westwood holding a Goliath beetle
John Obadiah Westwood by Ernest Edwards 1864
Westwood in later life