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Barker, C.N.

Collected for S.A. Museum and worked at Durban N.S. Museum

1893. Living in Malvern, Natal (S.A. Museum Annual Report).

"Worked for the Durban N.S. Museum 1916 - 1921 as entomologist. Sold to the museum his beetle collection of 11 436 specimens for 600 pounds." (C. Quickelberg, pers. comm.).

Specimens collected

Donations to the S.A. Museum: 1893 (Lepidoptera and Coleoptera from Karkloof; Malvern; Estcourt; Black Umvolosi [= Umfolosi]; D'Urban [= Durban]); 1894, 1895 (D'Urban); 1896, 1897.