"... After a brief period spent in other government offices, he transferred in 1910 to the , being appointed assistant in the Department of Zoology, which then included entomology. Under Dr. , Blair was put in charge of a large section of the comprising principally the , which had perforce been largely neglected for many years. His systematic critical revision of genera and species, the description of new ones, the elucidation of the work of the early authors, a catalogue of the and , and so on. Concurrently he published many papers of faunistic interest, based largely on collections made by various expeditions."
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Kenneth Blair
1940 – 1941
(22 December 1882 – 11 December 1952) was a British entomologist, specialising in the . He was elected president of the for a two-year term in 1940–1941.
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