John Hartley Durrant

Who was John Hartley Durrant?

John Hartley Durrant was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Durrant was an authority nomenclature. He was Lord Walsingham's secretary and had charge of his collections. When these were left to the Natural History Museum, London Walsingham provided funds for Durrant to continue to curate it. He was author, with Lionel Walter Rothschild, of Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. Macrolepidoptera. Tring, Zoological Museum and very many scientific papers on Lepidoptera.

In 1914 Durrant began a collaboration with Francis David Morice in a significant nomenclatural work entitled The authorship and first publication of the "Jurinean" Genera of Hymenoptera: being a reprint of a long-lost work by Panzer, with a translation into English, an introduction, and bibliographical and critical notes. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1914:339-436