Baron Robert De Selys de Fanson (or De Selys- Fanson), Belgian diplomat, came to the Transvaal in 1876, where he appears to have acted as Belgian consul. In 1879 he was appointed Belgian consul for the Cape Colony. He and a party from the Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Bruxelles, Belgium, collected orthopterous insects in the Transvaal and Cape Colony. A list of these insects was presented by Auguste de Bormans to the Societé entomologique de Belgique in December 1880, and published in its Annales (Vol. 25).

List of sources:

The London Gazette, January 17, 1879, p. 3965: Foreign Office June 16, 1879.

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Documents relating to Selys Fanson.

South African bibliography to the year 1925 (Bormans, A. de). London: Mansell, 1979.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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