Photos of Hymenoptera recorders - help wanted.

I am writing an account of the recording of aculeate Hymenoptera (wasps, ants and bees) in Watsonian Yorkshire, to be published in 2011 to coincide with 150 years of the YNU. (People, Places and Species: A history of aculeate Hymenoptera recording in Watsonian Yorkshire).

I would very much like photographs of the following: W.D. Roebuck, R. Butterfield, W.J. Fordham, W.D. Hincks and J.H. Flint. I am aware of the often poor quality black and white pictures that accompany their obituaries.

Photographs of these individuals would also be useful: A.E. Bradley, D.W Bevan, H.H. Corbett, J.F. Musham, F. Rhodes, C.A. Cheetham, J.H. Elliott, G.B. Walsh, J. Wood and P. Skidmore.

I also would like to have profile information on J.H. Elliott, and any information about the life and activities of this person would be very useful.

Michael Archer (contact details below)

The picture on the left shows Bombus hypnorum, a first record for vice-county 64, found on Headingley Hill in July 2009.

The photograph (below) shows Bombus pasquorum, also taken on Headingley Hill.

The recorder for this group (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) is:

Dr Michael Archer  17 Elmfield Terrace, Malton Rd, York, YO31 1EH 

Tel: 01904 424773