WESTWOOD.. JoutN OBADIAH (1805-93). An English entomologist and antiquary. He was born in Sheffield, and became a lawyer in London. but never practiced, devoting him self to entomology and antiquarian researches. Ae was a founder (1833). of the Entomological Society of London• and finally its honor•ar;y life president. In 1S61 he was appointed Hope pro fessor of zoffiogy at Oxford. While his works were largely systematic. he added greatly to our knowledge of the transformations and habits of insects. His Introduction to thr Modern Classi fication of Insects (1S30-401 was a work of per manent importance. Several of his works, as the A realm Entomologica (1841-45), are sumptuous in the richness of their plates. Besides nearly 400 memoirs and minor articles, his published works on insects, etc.. are: The Entomologist's Textbook (London, 1838) ; British Butterflies and Their Transformations, with plates by H. N. Humphreys (1841; new ed. [1857-] 1858) ; Brit ish Moths and Their Transformations, with plates by H. N. Humphreys ( London, 1843-45; new eds. in 1851 and 1857-58) ; with Doubleday, The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera (1846-52) ; The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology (London, [1547-] 184S. 4to) ; The Butterflies of Great Britain (London. 1855) ; Catalogue of Orthop tero+s Insects in the British Museum, part i..
Phasinidw (1859) ; Thesaurus Entomologirus Oxoniensis (1874); Revisio Inscctorum Families Mantidorum (1889) ; with Charles Spence Bate, .4 History of the British Sessile-Eyed Crustaeea (18113-68). In addition to this he edited or contributed parts relating to insects of many other works dealing with natural history.
Westwood was also widely known for his works on English arclneology. He excelled in reproduc ing old manuscripts, illuminations, and drawings of old ivories and in.:Vibe/I stones. His anti quarian works are: Pahrographia Sacra Pictoria (1343-45) : Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible ( 1846) ; On the Distinctive Character of the Ornamentation Employed by the Early Brit ish, Anglo-Saxon. and Irish Artists (1S54); Wood Carvings—Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Causes of Decoy in. Wood Carvings (1864) : Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts (18118); The Utrecht Psalter The Bible of the Monastery of Saint Paul Near Home (1876) ; talogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington. Museum (1876) : Lapidarium Wallide: The Early Inscribed and Sculptured Stones of Wales (1876-79) ; The Book of Kells: A Lecture (Dublin. 1887).