William Edward Shuckard
William Edward Shuckard was an English bookseller and entomologist.
He was also librarian of the Royal Society and translated Manual of Entomology Hermann Burmeister. He was a specialist in Hymenoptera but worked on
Coleoptera in his early years.
Publications
Partial list- A Description of the Superior Wings of the Hymenoptera. Trans. Ent. Soc., London, Vol. I., p. 208, 1836.
- Essay on the indigenous fossorial Hymenoptera : comprising a description of all the British species of burrowing sand wasps contained in the metropolitan collections, with their habits as far as they have been observed 1837
- Elements of British Entomology. London, 1839.
- with Spry, W. The British Coleoptera Delineated 1840.
- Monograph of the Dorylidae, a family of these Hymenoptera Heterogyna. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 5: 258-271.
- British Bees. An Introduction to the Study of the Natural History and Economy of the Bees Indigenous to the British Isles
He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London