“Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?” —  Friedrich Nietzsche en This user is a native speaker of the English language. “In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister” Natur und Kunst —  Goethe ACADEMIC JOURNAL This user has had his/her work published in an academic journal. This user is a member of WikiProject Lepidoptera This user is a participant in WikiProject History of Science. This user is a member of WikiProject Insects.

Interests

I have been contributing to Wikipedia since July 2005 and deal with topics on entomology, mainly on Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera. I return to an early interest in Snow Butterflies Parnassius from time to time. Many years working with type material led to an interest in zoological entomological history. I hope you like Timeline of Entomology and its mirror the wonderful French sites Portail:Histoire de la zoologie et de la botanique. [1] and Histoire de Histoire Naturelle

Philosophy

Influences

• 
  Erasmus Darwin ( Zoonomia)and the Midlands Enlightenment. The Derby Philosophical Society.
• 
  Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Education

• Ilkeston Grammar School
• Derby and District College of Technology

• 
  Ilkeston Grammar School
• 
  College of Technology, Derby
• 
  University College

External degrees with:

• University College

Upper second Honours Geology, Classical Zoology

Societies

• Royal Entomological Society
• Linnean Society

F.R.E.S., F.L.S

• 
  Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (One of my favorite paintings)
• 
  Great Gallery of Evolution in Jardin des Plantes, Paris (One of my favourite places)

Tools

• GDZ Library of the University of Göttingen digitised early literature Zoologica
• The Global Butterfly Information System
• Strasbourg Library
• Senckenberg
• Dusseldorf Library
• PaDil
• MNHN collections database
• World birds
• Zoonomen

Admired

• Ecology of Commanster
• Koleopterologie
• Galerie-insecte
• Deutsche Fotothek
• Paolo Monti
• Wilson
• Seitz
• Galemys pyrenaicus
• Eric Vingerhoedt
• Stamp Wiki and Wikitimbres
• Blick in die Ausstellung im Museum Wiesbaden
• Wikispecies
• Fulgoridae
• Sony NEX-5
• Siga
• Wikigallery
• Specie botaniche in Italia
• History of Composition
• Veränderlicher Edelscharrkäfer
• Dingo
• [2]

Philately

• Stamp world