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Samuel Stevens (naturalist)

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Stevens (1809-1859) from 1840 in Stevens' Auction Rooms on King Street. The auction house, known as Covent Garden auction house founded in 1760 was joined in by John Crace as a partner in 1831 and the company name was changed to J.C. Stevens' in 1834. Both the Stevens brothers was a keen entomological collectors for much of their life but were not very scientifically inclined. Samuel left the auction company in 1848 and started his own natural history agency from his shop at 24 Bloomsbury Street, London which ran until 1867 when he sold it to Edmond Thomas Higgins. He briefly managed the auction company after the death of his brother in 1859 until his nephews could take over. Stevens was an agent who sponsored specimen collection and two of his best known collectors were
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to John (c.1772–1836) and Augusta Crace. With a father interested in arts Samuel also sought to train as an artist. He received a medal from the Royal Society of Arts for some pencil sketches at the age of thirteen but illness prevented him from pursuing art. He partnered with his brother John Crace
75:, orchids, and the menagerie of Lord Derby. also supported the botanical collector Robert William Plant (1818-1858). For many years, Stevens lived with his mother Augusta, who died in 1868. Stevens married late in life to Francis Wood in 1874. After 1876 he retired to live at 71:. He supported their joint collecting expedition to the Amazon and then Wallace's journeys in the Malay Archipelago by buying their specimens, displaying them to learned societies and selling them to collectors. Their sales included the collections of 40000 insects made by 79:, Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood taking an interest in his insect collections, fishing, and water-colour painting. After his death, his collections were sold off in auctions by his nephew J.S. Stevens. 85: 434: 429: 174: 170: 276: 384:"On Stoastomida, as a family, and on seven proposed new genera, sixty-one new species, and two new varieties from Jamaica" 36: 101: 230: 118:
in 1857 β€œin compliment to the naturalist’s universal friend, S. Stevens, Esq., Bloomsbury Street, London.”
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Cooper, M. (2004). "Stevens family (per. c. 1830–1925), natural history auctioneers".
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from 1850. Stevens is remembered in the specific name of the Jamaican snail,
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agent in London. He was one of the founding members of the
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J. C. Stevens Auction Room depicted in a painting by
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entomological
natural history
Entomological Society of London
Alfred Russel Wallace
Henry Walter Bates

Kennington
Alfred Russel Wallace
Henry Walter Bates
Adrian Hardy Haworth
J. C. Stevens Auction Room depicted in a painting by Edward Armitage (1878)
Edward Armitage
Linnean Society
Fadyenia stevensiana
Edward Chitty
"Samuel Stevens"
The Zoologist
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"A price list of birds collected by Alfred Russel Wallace inserted in The Ibis of 1863"
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10.25226/bboc.v138i4.2018.a5
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0007-1595
"Robert Plant (1818–1858): A Victorian plant hunter in Natal, Zululand, Mauritius and the Seychelles"
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10.4102/sajs.v107i3/4.359
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