William Sharp Macleay

Mitchell Library, NSW, before 1865 William Sharp Macleay or McLeay (21 July 1792 – 26 January 1865) was a British civil servant and entomologist. He was a prominent promoter of the Quinarian system of classification.

After graduating, he worked for the British embassy in Paris, following his interest in natural history at the same time, publishing essays on insects and corresponding with Charles Darwin.

Macleay moved to Havana, Cuba, where he was, in turn, commissioner of arbitration, commissary judge, and then judge. Retiring from this work, he emigrated to Australia, where he continued to collect insects and studied marine natural history. Provided by Wikipedia
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    A reply to some observations of M. Virey in the "Bulletin des Sciences Naturelles, 1825" /
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    Remarks on the devastation occasioned by the Hylobius abietis in fir plantations /
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    Notes on the genus Capromys of Desmarest /
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    A letter to J.E. Bicheno in examination of his paper "On systems and methods" : in the Linnean Transactions /
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    Notice of Ceratitis citriperda, an insect very destructive to oranges /
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    On the Œstrus of Mr. Bracy Clark /
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    Abstract of a report on the state of the elm trees in St. James's and Hyde Parks /
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    Explanation of the comparative anatomy of the thorax in winged insects : with a review of the present state of the nomenclature of its parts /
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    Additional notice on the genus Capromys of Desmarest /
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    Remarks on the comparative anatomy of certain birds of Cuba : with a view to their respective places in the system of nature or to their relations with other animals /
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    Anatomical observations on the natural group of Tunicata : with the description of three species collected in Fox Channel during the late northern expedition / c by William Sharp MacLeay ; communicated by the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society ; read June 15, 1824.
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    On the insect called Oistros by the ancient Greeks, and Asilus by the Romans.
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    Remarks on the identity of certain general laws which have been lately observed to govern the natural distribution of insects and fungi /
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    On the structure of the tarsus in the tetramerous and trimerous Coleoptera of the French entomologists /
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    Annulosa javanica : ou, Description des insectes de Java /
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    Annulosa javanica, or, An attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield ... : and deposited by him in the museum of the Honourable East-India Company [no. 1] /
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    Horae entomologicae : or, Essays on the annulose animals /
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