Lansdown Guilding

He wrote numerous illustrated papers for journals of scholarly societies in England including the first descriptions of velvet worms and scale insects in the ground pearl family.

[1] In 1818, Guilding was accepted as Fellow of the Linnean Society, and by 1820 he was corresponding with Joseph Dalton Hooker, Aylmer Bourke Lambert and other established scientists.

Hooker wrote that Guilding was "an arrogant, demanding, ambitious, and often conceited individual, all too ready to ask for unusual favors".

[1] This production was submitted to the Wernerian Natural History Society, where it was presented by the president, Professor Robert Jameson.

[2] He corresponded with Charles Darwin, providing him with notes on the natural history of the Caribbean region.

He included an excellent watercolor painting of the specimen, and a mention to the defensive mechanism of sticky liquid squirts.

A translation into English from Guilding's description, originally written in Latin, shows how he first classified the specimen in the Class Mollusca, and how astonished he was for discovering a new species.