Frederick William Hope was an English clergyman, naturalist, collector, and entomologist, who founded a professorship at the University of Oxford to which he gave his entire collections of insects in 1849. He described numerous species and was a founder of the Entomological Society of London in 1833 along with John Obadiah Westwood.
Frederick William Hope circa 1861, painting by L.C. Dickinson (1819–1908)
Dorcus hopei is a stag beetle named after F.W. Hope
Image: FW Hope
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the university's chemistry, zoology and mathematics departments. The museum provides the only public access into the adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum.
Front view of Oxford University Museum
The Dinosaur Gallery of the museum before renovation in 2023–24
The interior from the gallery level.
Roof and dinosaur exhibition hall