Author:John Obadiah Westwood

John Obadiah Westwood
(1805–1893)

John Obadiah Westwood

Works

• The Natural History of Insects with James Rennie, 1829 vol 1, vol 2
• The Animal Kingdom arranged in Conformity with its Organisation by the Baron Cuvier (1832).
• Illustrations of Exotic Entomology (as editor, 1837)
• The entomologist's text book, 1838 (external scan)
• An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects (1839) vol 1, vol 2
• Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects (1840)
• Palaeographia sacra pictoria (1843) (external scan)
• The Cabinet of Oriental Entomology (1848) (external scan)
• "On the Peculiarities Exhibited by the Miniatures and Ornamentation of Ancient Irish Illuminated MSS" in Archaeological Journal, 7 (1850), pp. 17–25
• Diptera nonnulla exotica descripta, (short work) 1850 (external scan)
• The butterflies of Great Britain with their transformations, delineated and described, 1855 (external scan)
• Fac-similes of the miniatures & ornaments of Anglo-Saxon & Irish manuscripts, 1868 (external scan)
• Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis, 1874 (external scan)
• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum, 1876 (external scan)
• Lapidarium Walliae, 1879 (external scan)
• Observations on the Uraniidae, (short work) 1879 (external scan)
• "Contributions to fossil entomology" in the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 10: 378–396 (1854)

Works about Westwood

• "Westwoodd, John Obadiah," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Westwood, John Obadiah," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Obituary: John Obadiah Westwood" in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (March 1893)