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.

## സംഭാവനകൾ

Partial list

### 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. [[Frederick William Hope|F.W. Hope]]*. London: McMillan & Co., i–xxiv, 205 pp., 40 pls (1873-1874) [Published in 4 parts: Part I, pp.&nbsp;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.

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

### [[Phasmida|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).

## അവലംബം

## പുറം കണ്ണികൾ

*John Obadiah Westwood
*Page on John Obadiah Westwood's grave in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
*[Manuscripts at the [Natural History Museum, London|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.
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* OUM Description of Westwood's collection

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