Charles George Nurse Charles George Nurse ( 1862 Barnham - 5 November 1933 , Tunbridge Wells ) was an English military officer , naturalist , ornithologist and entomologist . Charles George Nurse was one of many British military officers who made significant contributions to knowledge of the natural history of India . Military career . Charles George Nurse was educated at King Edward VI School in Bury , St . Edmunds , then at the Royal Military Academy . A linguist with a sound knowledge of Russian and several Oriental languages he rapidly advanced in his chosen career . Natural history . Nurse had a lifelong interest in birds and as many naturalists did he collected butterflies and moths . This was reinforced when Sir George Hampson and Lord Walsingham and George Hampson , published On moths collected at Aden and in Somaliland . " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London " 16 : 257 – 283 , pl . 10 in 1896 . This was based on his specimens and species new to science were described . He later widened his interest , to other Orders of insects , especially Hymenoptera . At this time Indian Hymenoptera were neglected . Nurse described many new species and added greatly to knowledge of the group . Many Nurse Hymenoptera specimens were described by Charles Thomas Bingham , Peter Cameron ( 1907 . Description of a new genus and some new species of Hymenoptera captured by Lieut . - Col . C . G . Nurse at Deesa , Matheran and Ferozepore . " Journal of the Bombay natural History Society " , 17 : 1001 - 10012 ; 18 : 130 - 1360 and Claude Morley in " The Fauna of British India , Including Ceylon and Burma " . Collection . The Nurse collection is in the Natural History Museum , London . " By the will of the late Lieut . - Col . C . G . Nurse , the Trustees of the British Museum ( Natural History ) have received a bequest of 3 , 000 Indian insects mostly obtained at Quetta , Deesa and Jubbulpore , where Col . Nurse served with the Indian Army . Col . Nurse was one of the small band of naturalists among military officers who devoted their leisure to the study of entomology , and was an enthusiastic collector of Hymenoptera , forming a large and valuable collection which he presented to the Museum a few years ago . The present bequest comprises the remainder of his Indian insects and includes about 1 , 450 Diptera ( two winged flies ) , 1 , 300 butterflies , 130 dragon - flies and some others ; of these the most valuable are the Diptera . The collection is especially rich in species of the family Bombyliidae , most of which are parasitic in the larval state on bees or wasps . Col . Nurse discovered and described fourteen species of this family which were new to science , and types of these are in the collection , as well as specimens of a number of other flies which were not previously represented in the Museum . Some interesting butterflies and other insects from Aden are included . ’ Recent Acquisitions at the Natural History Museum Nature 133 : 323 - 323 ( 3 March 1934 ) Societies . Charles George Nurse was a Member of the Bombay Natural History Society ( Managing Committee ) . He was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London in 1895 and a Special Life Fellow in 1932 . Works . Partial and intended to illustrate the diversity of Nurse ' s natural history interests .