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Sir James Cosmo Melvill KCB FRS (8 June 1792 – 23 July 1861) was a British administrator who served as the last secretary of the East India Company.
James Cosmo Melvill FLS FZS (1 July 1845 – 4 November 1929) was a British botanist and malacologist who collected plants in Europe and North America.
James Cosmo Melvill (1792-1861) (‘JCM I’) JCM I was born in Guernsey, the third son of Philip I and Elizabeth, but the first to survive to adulthood. In 1811, through family connection with the Anstruthers (Philip’s cousin Sir John Anstruther (1753-1811) had b een Chief Justice of Bengal from 1797-1808 [1] ) his father secured him a ...
Search for specimens collected by James Cosmo Melvill.. references and external links . Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol 19 (2),p 59-61 Manchester Memoirs, Vol 61, (1917), No 5 ‘On the contents of a herbarium of British and foreign Plants for presentation to the Victoria University, Manchester’ by Charles Bailey.
James Cosmo Melvill, of Meole Brace Hall, Shrewsbury, died on Nov. 4 1929. Melvill's collection consisted of over 22,500 species, including an extensive entomological collection of British butterflies, wasps, flies, and dragonflies.
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James Cosmo Melvill (1845-1929) Melvill started collecting by purchasing specimens at auction, notably at Stevens sales in London. He continued this practice throughout his life and from his own annotated catalogues he is known to have attended 56 sales including those of Dennison (1865), Norris (1873, 1874) and J. Lombe Taylor (1880).
