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Post by wollastoni on Oct 21, 2015 9:53:09 GMT
As there are now many interesting articles about famous insect collectors on the ICF, I have created this "menu" that could help our readers find information about them. Some articles are very detailed, some very short.
A big thank you to those who have taken the time to write those interesting articles. I encourage people to transmit their knowledge about famous collectors (historic or living ones).
- Archer, Ted (Britain) - Barns, T.A. (Britain) - Brandt, Wilhelm Waidermar (Australia) - Brown, George (Britain) - Brown, S.C. (Britain) - Crabtree, B.H. (Britain) - Dale, J.C. (Britain) - Davies, Thomas William (U.S.A.) - Doherty, W. (U.S.A.) - Ford, Edmund Brisco (Britain) - Fountaine, M. (Britain) - Harding, H.G. (Britain) - Heslop, I.R.P. (Britain) - Hyde, G.E. (Britain) - Larsen, C.S. (Danemark) - Larsen, Torben (Danemark) : 1, 2 - Linne, Carl (Sweden) - May, James, F.W. (Britain) - Mayrhofer, A (Germany) - McGlashan, Charles & Ximena (U.S.A.) - Meek, Edward George (Britain) - Michael, Otto (Germany) - Oberthur family (France) - Perkins, Robert Cyril Layton (Britain) - Raynor, Gilbert Henry (Britain) - Rothschild, W (Britain) - Quekett family (Britain) - Smart, Paul (Britain) - van Mastrigt, H (Holland) - Waterstadt, John (Danemark) - Weiske, Emil (Germany) - Welling, Eduardo (Mexico) - Wollaston, Alexander Frederick Richmond (Britain) - de Worms, Charles (Britain) - Wyatt, Colin (Britain/Australia)
Many other collectors are quoted in various topics of the ICF, just use the Search option to find some comments about them.
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Post by nomad on Oct 21, 2015 10:44:00 GMT
Great Idea.
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Post by nomad on Oct 21, 2015 10:46:01 GMT
Will Doherty was an American In my opinion there greatest overseas collector.
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 21, 2015 11:04:32 GMT
Thanks corrected.
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Post by mygos on Oct 21, 2015 12:47:01 GMT
links to Oberthur and Rothschild are the same Olivier ?
A+, Michel
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 21, 2015 14:10:53 GMT
Yes as this article talks about both of them. This said, I agree that a specific and longer article about Oberthur is needed, if anyone wants to work on it.
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Post by George Beccaloni on Apr 7, 2018 13:56:08 GMT
The two greatest insect collectors of all time are not on your list! Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Post by jhyatt on Apr 7, 2018 14:16:58 GMT
And Evelyn Cheesman would have to be on my list of greats as well. I don't recall her being mentioned or discussed much... Cheers, jh
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Post by jmg on Apr 7, 2018 21:31:28 GMT
What about Bates ? Fassl ?
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Post by bobw on Apr 8, 2018 8:59:10 GMT
For me the greatest field collector was Grum-Grshimailo and the greatest collection was that of Walter Rothschild.
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Post by nomad on Apr 8, 2018 9:24:51 GMT
I believe this list, was meant to be a reference to the articles on the ICF about famous insect collectors and not a complete list of the most famous ones but its nice to here your favourite collectors. Of course we all have personal favourites. If I would have to pick a world field collector, it would be Alfred Stewart Meek and a collector who contributed to all insect orders of Britain, then James Charles Dale. The greatest museum workers, Karl Jordan and Walter Rothschild.
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Post by nomad on Apr 8, 2018 9:44:02 GMT
And Evelyn Cheesman would have to be on my list of greats as well. I don't recall her being mentioned or discussed much... Cheers, jh She was a great collector who collected all insect orders for science, a remarkable lady who New Guinea journeys are awesome. I have most of her books.
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Post by mothylator on Sept 22, 2018 16:03:24 GMT
Nomad, I wondered if anyone has any information about the lepidopteran activities, amongst the more widely-remembered feats of reknown, by the great Victorian hunter and collector Major Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton, FZS, FRGS, FRAI, JP (20 September 1866 – 26 June 1940)?
Amongst his many exploits, he mounted some particularly interesting expeditions the Congo, and was there from 1905-7.
I have a Papilio zalmoxis I acquired with a few other specimens in the late 1960s, when everyone seemed to want fresh new material rather than older less pristine specimens. The surprisingly small label is on an old English stainless steel pin, which has his name on the label stating "Makala, Congo Free State. Powell-Cotton. June 1906". During that month, a doctor finally managed to reach their expedition, in the Congo basin, and attend to his recently-wed wife, who had been suffering with fevers and gastrointestinal illness for some months.
I understand from what I've read that he may have experienced problems setting up some of his expeditions due to the costs, and sometimes reluctance of museums to buy the new "type specimen" material he brought back from his expeditions in remote areas with enormous effort and manpower (eg 2 White Rhino hides and skeletons, as well as 2 Elephant materials) so funding could have been an issue at times. Did he sell some of his entomology specimens to private collectors, as well as museums? His currently extant collection has limited entomological displays at the Quex Park, Kent. I would have to arrange to visit to discover more.... one of my future projects....
IN addition to many mammals named after him (named X cottoni or powelli) There are several butterflies named cottoni or powelli species/ssp, and a genus was named after him: Powellana cottoni (monotypic genus) Iolaus catori cottoni Bebearia cottoni Euphaedra cottoni
Anyone know more about his lepidopteran accomplishments, and those of his offspring? Anyone know who/where he sold specimens to?
The entomological area of his accomplishments is surely an important missing chapter in our lists.
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Post by nomad on Sept 22, 2018 16:26:19 GMT
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Post by lamprima2 on Feb 25, 2023 8:13:18 GMT
Eugène Le Moult (1882-1967)
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