| Authorised form of name | McLachlan; Robert (1837 - 1904) |
| Dates | 1837 - 1904 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 17 Upper East Smithfield, London, England |
| Date of birth | 10 April 1837 |
| Place of death | His home at Lewisham, London |
| Date of death | 23/05/1904 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Tower Hamlets cemetery, London |
| Research field | Botany |
| Entomology |
| Activity | Career:
Collected botanical samples on a voyage to Australia and China (1855); took up entomology
Memberships:
FLS (1862); Societe Imperiale des Amis des Sciences Naturelles de Moscou; New Zealand Institute (Honorary);
Society pro Fauna et Flora Fennica; Entomological Society of the Netherlands
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1877 |
| Relationships | Son of Hugh McLachlan, ship chandler; unmarried |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 367-370 signed by E S |
| Code | NA6466 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/2/157 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster [Royal Society] | 6 February 1888 |
| NLB/4/103 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix to Robert McLachlan, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 February 1890 |
| NLB/3/260 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert McLachlan, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 April 1889 |
| NLB/3/1065 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr [Robert] McLachlan, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 3 January 1890 |
| NLB/8/1046 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Armstrong, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 February 1894 |
| NLB/18/116 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [R] McLachlan, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 January 1899 |
| RR/9/41 | Referee's report by Robert McLachlan, on a paper 'The prehensores of male butterflies of the genera Ornithoptera and Papilo' by Philip Henry Gosse | 7 January 1882 |
| EC/1877/11 | McLachlan, Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |