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Post by fvscarvalho on Jan 17, 2016 13:44:08 GMT
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 17, 2016 13:50:56 GMT
Interesting ! I see that this book is available on Abebooks here. Anyone could tell us more about this Otto Michael and what he discovered ?
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Post by nomad on Jan 17, 2016 14:30:52 GMT
I must admit, I have never heard of this adventurous collector, such a pity I cannot read his book.
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Post by deliasfanatic on Jan 17, 2016 15:10:15 GMT
Callicore excelsior michaeli was named for him, among others.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 17, 2016 15:15:46 GMT
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Post by luehdorfia on Sept 20, 2016 7:22:11 GMT
I read his book since my mother tongue is German and after two or three pages you get quickly used to the German old font. His writing style is not the very best but still his stories are very exciting. Most impressive was that he was complaining about logging and fire clearing of forest especially around Santarem, where he said it was difficult to find species that Dr. Staudinger had found before him. He also described his meeting with an orchid collector, what a wonderful hobby that must have been and apparently more difficult than collecting butterflies since you have to keep the orchids alive and grow them. When I am back in Germany I will have a look at the book again and collect the names of all the species he mentions for everyone and post them, I can then translate the story of species that someone is especially interested in.
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 20, 2016 7:32:52 GMT
Great ! And thanks a lot for the translation proposal !
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Post by hewi on Sept 20, 2016 21:40:03 GMT
From 1925 to 1933 he published 16 papers on butterflies of the genus AGRIAS in the "Entomologische Zeitschrift". He named countless new forms with infrasubspecific names (as did LE MOULT). Here are 3 illustrations of Agrias he had painted himself.
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Post by hewi on Sept 20, 2016 21:40:47 GMT
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Post by hewi on Sept 20, 2016 21:41:23 GMT
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Post by nomihoudai on Sept 20, 2016 22:13:40 GMT
I'm pretty sure I had that butterfly of Staudinger once in my very hands. Good to see it again.
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Post by hsp90 on May 26, 2018 11:11:10 GMT
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Post by hewi on May 26, 2018 22:06:07 GMT
Many thanks for the link to Michael Greef's publication on the life and work of Otto Michael.
It is a pity that the beautiful original watercolors of O. Michael are sleeping in the archives of ETH Zurich and have never been published.
This would be an enrichment for all butterfly lovers as well as for admirers of entomological art.
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