Description of a Rare Scarabaeus from Potosi, with Engravings colouered from Nature by J. Francellon. England Quarto

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 9

Author/Composer:

Francillon, John (1744–1816)

Notes:

The donor, John Francillon, was the first to describe the jewel scarab beetle Chrysina macropus. He was a jeweler and lapidary, an English naturalist, and an entomologist of Huguenot descent. He was also a dealer in natural history specimens and paintings. He was the agent for John Abbot selling his American bird and natural history illustrations, and he maintained a large insect collection. Some of his butterflies appear in the "Icones" of William Jones (1,500 paintings of butterflies now at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History). Francillon was a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

Title Information:

Description of a rare scarabaeus from Potosi, in South America: with engraved representations of the same, coloured from nature

Imprint Information:

London, 1795