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Joseph Sidebotham: Vicissitudes of a Victorian Collector (2015)

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Joseph Sidebotham (1824--1885) was a Manchester cotton baron whose natural history collections are now in the Manchester Museum. In addition to collecting he suggested a method for identifying and classifying Lepidoptera and investigated variation within species as well as species limits. With three close collaborators, he is credited with discovering many species new to Britain in both Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. A suspicion of fraud attaches to these claims. The evidence is not clear-cut in the Lepidoptera, but a possible reason is suggested why Sidebotham, as an amateur in the increasingly professional scientific world, might have engaged in deceit.

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Authors & Contributors
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.
Bennett, Tony
Cardwell, Donald Stephen Lowell
Colley, Ann C.
Craske, Matthew
Dibley, Ben
Journals
Journal of the History of Collections
Museum History Journal
Archives of Natural History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History and Anthropology
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Publishers
Manchester University Press
Ashgate Publishing
Liverpool University Press
White Horse Press
Concepts
Museums
Collections
Collectors and collecting
Natural history
Colonialism
Science and culture
People
Coutinho, João Martins da Silva
Petiver, James
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox
Scott, Robert Falcon
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
Sloane, Hans
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Manchester (England)
London (England)
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Australia
China
Institutions
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
British Museum. Natural History
Science Museum, London
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
Uppsala Universitet (Sweden)
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