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Gaaje, ?.

NMB ants: 1981 (De Kalk; co-collector with Louw and Mosala).

 

Gaerdes, Fritz (1892-1975).

Amateur insect collector in Namibia who spent most of his life as a school teacher in Okahandja. 

 

Gamble, J.G.

SAM ants: 1876 (Calvinia).

 

Gardiner, Alan J.

SAM ants: 1985-1987 (Bulawayo, Mazoe Citrus Estates).

 

Gardner, R.J.

TM leps

 

Geertsema, Henk.

SAM ants: 1961-1964 (Saasveld; Kleinplaats near George).

 

Gess, Frederick W.

Entomologist, specialising in aculeate wasps, who is head of Entomology at the Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Used to work at the South African Museum. Husband of S.K. Gess.

Gess (née Greathead), Sarah K.

SAM ants: 1959-1967 (various localities). Works in Entomology Department at Albany Museum. Wife of F.W. Gess.

 

Geyer, Albert Lourens (1894-1969).

SAM ants: 1937 (Fort Beaufort). (*)

 

Ghent, R.L.

Bolton(1980): collected ants in 1962 from near Mbabane.

 

Gilliomee, Jan H.

SAM ants: 1986 (Stellenbosch). Professor of Entomology at University of Stellenbosch.

 

Gillman, R.

Donation to SAM: 1895 (Spectakel, Cape Colony).

 

Gillman, S.

SAM ants: 1921-1926 (Sandfontein, South West Africa). Note in G&C p. 168.

 

Gladstone, Lord.

TM leps. Donated a large number of moths to the Transvaal Museum in 1913.

 

Glasson, G.H.

Donation to SAM: 1893 (Thamnotrizon basale from Cape Town); 1894 (Cape Town); 1896; 1897 (Kalk Bay; Wynberg).

 

Godfrey, R.

SAM ants: 1910-1913 (Pirie; King Williams Town).

 

Good, Miss.

Donation to SAM: 1897 (Bechuanaland).

 

Graham, Francis C. (Mr).

Donations to SAM: 1893, 1894, 1896 (Lepidoptera from Dordrecht, Wodehouse district); 1897 (Somerset East district). 

 

Granville, Mrs C.

TM leps

 

Greathead, S.K.

See Gess, Sarah K.

 

Grey, B.

SAM ants: 1990-1995 (Pretoria). Works at South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), Pretoria.

 

Grey, T.G.C.

SAM ants: 1967 (Botswana).

 

Griffin, L.T.

Donation to SAM: 1897 (arachnids from Cape Town).

 

Griffin, R. Eryn.

SM; SAM ants: 1986-1992 (Namibian localities). Arachnologist at State Museum, Windhoek.

 

Griffith, R.G.

SAM ants: 1960 (Pretoria).

 

Griswold, Charles (Dr)

Arachnologist who has worked on African spiders and has visited southern Africa. The spider genus Griswoldia (Zoropsidae) is named after him.

 

Grobbelaar, P.

SAM ants: 1973 (Bonnievale).

 

Grobham, M.

Listed in Bolton (1974) as having collected ants in Beira, Mozambique in 1936.

 

Grobler, J.H.

SAM ants ex PPRI: 1956-1959 (various localities).

 

Groenewoud, P.

SAM ants: (Robertson, Cape).

 

Guillarmod, C.F. Jacot.

See Jacot Guillarmod, C.F.J.

 

Guillarmod, A.F.M.G. Jacot.

See Jacot Guillarmod, C.F.J.

 

Gunn, D.

Entomologist at the Division of Entomology, Pretoria. Studied the Fig and willow borer Phryneta spinator from 1914-1915.

 

Gunning, Miss M.

TM leps

 

Text by Hamish Robertson