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Post by wollastoni on Feb 15, 2019 13:10:08 GMT
I have just learnt that the great entomologist Colin Treadaway, specialist of Philippines lepidoptera, has passed away.
A very sad news for entomology.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 15, 2019 14:04:45 GMT
Very sad news indeed, he will be sorely missed.
Adam.
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Post by antonio giudici on Feb 16, 2019 0:31:58 GMT
A great loss. R.I.P.
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Post by joachim on Jun 24, 2019 0:06:40 GMT
That is a great loss, espesially he was a nice and helpful man. I visited him in Frankfurt sometimes in the 80´s and met him also on insect fairs in Frankfurt.
At that time, he told me was afraid of paying taxes as his collection was so great, and he gave all that to the Senckenberg Museum. He lived some years in the Phillipines and loved that country, not only the butterflies.( and he liked hot food because he got used of it in the years he lived in the Phillipines) As he was rather wealthy he also was very modest, and had a great sense of humor. He worked at Procter & Gamble in which he was the technical director at that time and later somewhere ceo.
He was the one who told me the story that he one day was driving in the car, he saw a butterfly at a bush somewhere, stopped, got his net and run back to catch the butterfly. A man saw that and escaped as he thought he would be the one to be caught.
He was married with a nice womanat that time as his first wife died.
So the world is missing a great entomologist but his work will survive in a big collection and many papers.
Joachim
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