John O. Westwood

John Obadiah Westwood (22 ഡിസംബർ 1805 – 2 ജനുവരി 1893) ഒരു  ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് പ്രാണിപഠനശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനും പുരാവസ്തുശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനും ആയിരുന്നു. 

ശാസ്ത്രത്തിലുള്ള താല്പര്യംമൂലം അദ്ദേഹം നിയമപഠനം  പാതിവഴിയിൽ ഉപേക്ഷിച്ചു. അദ്ദേഹം Frederick William Hope-ന്റെ ശുപാർശയാൽ ഓക്സ്ഫഡ് സർവകലാശാലയുടെ പരിപാലകനും തുടർന്ന് പ്രൊഫസറുമായി നിയമിക്കപ്പെട്ടു. Linnean Society of London-ഇലും Royal Entomological Society-ഇലും അദ്ദേഹം അംഗമായിരുന്നു.

30 ഡിസംബർ 1892-ൽ അദ്ദേഹം തളർന്നുവീഴുകയും തുടർന്ന് അബോധാവസ്ഥയിൽ കിടന്ന് 2 January 1893-ൽ മരണമടയുകയും ചെയ്തു.

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പൊതുവായത്
 Class Insecta.in Griffith, E. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organisation by the Baron Cuvier. Whittaker, London. 796 pp (1832).
 An introduction to the modern classification of insects Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. (−1839) 
 Synopsis of the genera of British Insects. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. 158 pp. (1840) The full text
 The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology (1848) The full text
 Arcana Entomologica, or illustrations of new, rare, and interesting exotic insects. Volumes 1 & 2. [Volume 1 published in parts, 1841-1843. Volume 2 published in parts, 1843-1845]. 
 Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis: or illustrations of new, rare and interesting insects, for the most part coloured, in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F.W. Hope. London: McMillan & Co., i–xxiv, 205 pp., 40 pls (1873-1874) [Published in 4 parts: Part I, pp. 1–56 in 1873; parts II-IV in 1874].

Hymenoptera എന്ന പ്രാണിവർഗ്ഗത്തിന്റെ നിരയെപ്പറ്റി
 Description of several British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. London & Edinburgh Phil. Mag. J. Sci. 1: 127–129 (1832).
 Further notices of the British parasitic hymenopterous insects; together with the "Transactions of a fly with a long tail," observed by Mr. E. W. Lewis; and additional observations. Magazine of Natural History 6: 414–421. (1833).
 Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. London & Edinburgh Phil. Mag. J. Sci. 2: 443–445 (1833). The full text 
 Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. London & Edinburgh Phil. Mag. J. Sci. 3: 342–344 1833.. 
 "...Hymenopterous Insects, which Mr Westwood regarded as new to science." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 68–72. (1835) The full text
 Characters of new genera and species of hymenopterous insects.. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 51–72 (1835). The full text
 Observations on the genus Typhlopone, with descriptions of several exotic species of ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 81–89 (1840) The full text.
 On the Evaniidae and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1)7: 535–538 (1841). 
 Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. Arcana Entomologica 1(5): 73–80 (1842) The full text.
 On Evania and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 3(4): 237–278 (1843). 
 Description of a new species of the hymenopterous genus Aenictus, belonging to the Dorylidae. Journal of Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1840–1846: 85. (1843).  The full text.
 Description of a new dorylideous insect from South Africa, belonging to the genus Aenictus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 237–238 (1847). 
 Description of the "Driver" ants, described in the preceding article. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5: 16–18 (1847). 
 Descriptions of some new species of exotic Hymenoptera belonging to Evania and the allied genera, being a supplement to a memoir on those insects published in the third volume of the Transactions of the Entomological Society. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (2)1: 213–234. (1851).
 Descriptions of some new species of short-tongued bees belonging to the genus Nomia.  Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1875: 207–222. (1875).
 Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10: 378–396 1854.  The full text

ശലഭങ്ങളെപ്പറ്റി
 With Henry Noel Humphreys British Moths and Their Transformations. London: William Smith, 1843–1845. 2 Volumes.

തൊഴുകയ്യൻപ്രാണികളെപ്പറ്റി
 Revisio Insectorum Familiae Mantidarum, speciebus novis aut minus cognitis descriptis et delineatis. – Revisio Mantidarum. Gurney & Jackson, London. 55pp. & 14 plates. (1889).

ചുള്ളിപ്രാണികളെപ്പറ്റി
 Insectorum Arachnoidumque Decades duo. Zoological Journal, 5(10): 440-453, pl. 22. (1834).
 Catalogue of the Orthopterous Insects in the Collection of British Museum. Part I: Phasmidae. British Museum, London. (1859).
  Heteropteryx hopei, Westw. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 2(3): 16-17.(1864).

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John Obadiah Westwood
Page on John Obadiah Westwood's grave in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
Manuscripts at the Natural History Museum
Arcana entomologica, 1845 at Oxford Digital Library: Volume One; Volume Two.
Smithsonian Archives
 An introduction to the modern classification of insects : founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families (1839)
 J. O. Westwood's illustrated works in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

 OUM Description of Westwood's collection

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