Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Here´s some minor additions on five eponyms …
Disclaimer: None of the persons below have been real thoroughly researched, they´re just people I´ve stumbled upon while searching for some Swedish naturalists. I guess they all need some sort of confirmation or verification, at least some double-checking, before claiming any of them as being true, but I thought (now that I happened to find them) they could be worth mentioning (additions under-lined below) .
Of their accuracy… review, criticize or judge yourself ... ok, here goes:
No. 1 – kersteni
● in the subspecies Ploceus bicolor kersteni HARTLAUB & FINSCH 1870
= the German explorer, geographer, chemist and collector (of various Naturalia; birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, flowers, plants etc. etc.) Otto Kersten (1839–1900) … more on him see Wiki (here)
No. 2 – woznesenskii
● in the debated subspecies Xema/Larus sabini woznesenskii PORTENKO 1939 (by some considered syn. of nominate Xema s. sabini).
= most likely the Russian explorer Il'ya Gavrilovich Voznesensky (1816–1871) … or (if anyone prefer to transcribe it differently) in Russian; Илья Гаврилович Вознесенский .
Anyway that´s what I hope is the original version, spelling … and what it says!
No. 3 – birgitae
● in the hard-to-place subspecies Anthreptes griseigularis/malacensis birgitae SALOMONSEN 1953
= the fairy unknown Dane Ruth Birgit Nielsen (1923–2010), wife of the Danish ornithologist (and amateur jazz pianist) Finn Salomonsen (1909–1983)*
*Her (piano tinkling) husband is, for example, commemorated in the subspecies Dicaeum pygmaeum salomonseni PARKES 1962
... and their daughter is Danish Pop-Rock-Jazz singer Sanne Salomsen!
No. 4 – helenae
● in the subspecies Harpactes erythrocephalus helenae MAYR 1941
= the almost unknown, at least among ornithologist's (but fairly well-known in US High Society, in those days), Helen McMahon (Brady) Cutting (1894–1961), widow of the US financier, sportsman and philanthropist James Cox Brady, thereafter (in 1932) married to the US naturalist and explorer C. [Charles] Suydam Cutting (below, No. 5) …
No. 5 – cuttingi
● in the subspecies Delichon nipalense cuttingi MAYR 1941.
= the fairly well-known US naturalist and explorer Charles Suydam Cutting (1889–1972), second husband of No. 4.
Although he was far more famous as being the first Westerner to enter the Forbidden City in Lhasa, Tibet!
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However; that´s them!
I hope.
x
Disclaimer: None of the persons below have been real thoroughly researched, they´re just people I´ve stumbled upon while searching for some Swedish naturalists. I guess they all need some sort of confirmation or verification, at least some double-checking, before claiming any of them as being true, but I thought (now that I happened to find them) they could be worth mentioning (additions under-lined below) .
Of their accuracy… review, criticize or judge yourself ... ok, here goes:
No. 1 – kersteni
● in the subspecies Ploceus bicolor kersteni HARTLAUB & FINSCH 1870
= the German explorer, geographer, chemist and collector (of various Naturalia; birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, flowers, plants etc. etc.) Otto Kersten (1839–1900) … more on him see Wiki (here)
No. 2 – woznesenskii
● in the debated subspecies Xema/Larus sabini woznesenskii PORTENKO 1939 (by some considered syn. of nominate Xema s. sabini).
= most likely the Russian explorer Il'ya Gavrilovich Voznesensky (1816–1871) … or (if anyone prefer to transcribe it differently) in Russian; Илья Гаврилович Вознесенский .
Anyway that´s what I hope is the original version, spelling … and what it says!
No. 3 – birgitae
● in the hard-to-place subspecies Anthreptes griseigularis/malacensis birgitae SALOMONSEN 1953
= the fairy unknown Dane Ruth Birgit Nielsen (1923–2010), wife of the Danish ornithologist (and amateur jazz pianist) Finn Salomonsen (1909–1983)*
*Her (piano tinkling) husband is, for example, commemorated in the subspecies Dicaeum pygmaeum salomonseni PARKES 1962
... and their daughter is Danish Pop-Rock-Jazz singer Sanne Salomsen!
No. 4 – helenae
● in the subspecies Harpactes erythrocephalus helenae MAYR 1941
= the almost unknown, at least among ornithologist's (but fairly well-known in US High Society, in those days), Helen McMahon (Brady) Cutting (1894–1961), widow of the US financier, sportsman and philanthropist James Cox Brady, thereafter (in 1932) married to the US naturalist and explorer C. [Charles] Suydam Cutting (below, No. 5) …
No. 5 – cuttingi
● in the subspecies Delichon nipalense cuttingi MAYR 1941.
= the fairly well-known US naturalist and explorer Charles Suydam Cutting (1889–1972), second husband of No. 4.
Although he was far more famous as being the first Westerner to enter the Forbidden City in Lhasa, Tibet!
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However; that´s them!
I hope.
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