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Petrochelidon preussi (Reichenow, 1898) OD 6, 1898 - Ornithologische Monatsberichte - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ploceus preussi (Reichenow, 1893) OD ser.4:Jahrg.40=no.197-198 (1892) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Cinnyris reichenowi preussi Reichenow, 1892 OD ser.4:Jahrg.40=no.197-198 (1892) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Onychognathus walleri preussi Reichenow, 1892 OD ser.4:Jahrg.40=no.197-198 (1892) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Graucalus preussi Reichenow, 1892 OD ser.4:Jahrg.40=no.197-198 (1892) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Campephaga preussi Reichenow, 1899 OD 7, 1899 - Ornithologische Monatsberichte - Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi Reichenow, 1892
Preuss's Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon preussi Reichenow, 1898
African Cuckooshrike sp. Campephaga preussi Reichenow, 1899 NCR [Alt. Purple-throated Cuckooshrike; JS Campephaga quiscalina]
Grey Cuckooshrike ssp. Coracina caesia preussi Reichenow, 1892 NCR [NUI Coracina caesia pura]
Preuss's Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi preussi Reichenow, 1892 [Alt. Northern Double-collared Sunbird ssp.]
Waller's Starling ssp. Onychognathus walleri preussi Reichenow, 1892
Professor Paul Preuss (1861–1926) was a Poland-born German naturalist, botanist and horticulturist. He collected in He collected in West Africa (1886–1898), New Guinea (c.1903) and again in West Africa (1910). He was a member of Zintgraff's (1888– 1891) military expedition to explore the interland of Cameroon, then a German colony. Whilst storming a native village, the troop commander was killed and the second-incommand severely wounded; Preuss took over command and led the remaining troops back to the coast. He constructed the botanical gardens of Victoria (Limbe) , Cameroon (1901), being employed by the colonial government. Three mammals, an amphibian and a reptile are named after him.

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Paul Preuss (1861-1926) German botanist, collector in West Africa 1886-1888 (syn. Campephaga quiscalina, syn. Ceblepyris caesius purus, syn. Chlorophoneus multicolor, subsp. Cinnyris reichenowi, subsp. Onychognathus walleri, Petrochelidon, Ploceus).

If Paul Preuß (Botaniker) – Wikipedia is correct Paul Rudolph Preuß. But looks solidly researched so why not the additional name and the ß versus ss.
His death record and other documents suggest as well the additional name. From the documents I would write his last name Preuss and not Preuß.

Feel free to correct me or add any additional information about him.
Not birds:

• Myosorex preussi Matschie, 1893 OD 1893 - Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Cercopithecus preussi Matschie, 1898 OD 1898 - Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Piliocolobus preussi Matschie, 1900 OD 1900 - Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Werneria preussi (Matschie, 1893) OD 1893 - Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Toxicocalamus preussi Sternfeld, 1913 OD 1913 - Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin - Biodiversity Heritage Library

I am wondering why no plant was named for him if he was a botanical.

He was West Prussian and not Poland born even if the town Toruń is today part of Poland.

 

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The death record is written in Kurrent and in my opinion, there is an Eszett in the surname Preuß. Two "ss" would be the same size and shape.

 

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Most of the death record is in Kurrent, but the family names (Wiebecke, Preuss, Shrapel) and the name of his birth town (Thorn) are in Latin script.

I read the name in the record as Preuss, like Martin. (Or, rather, Preuſs -- a long s followed by a short s.) For comparison, there is a ß in Kurrent script in Stindestraße, two lines above Preuſs.

I'm never too sure about script conventions re. ß in historical German text, though. Wasn't it, at some point, usual to turn all ß into ss (or ſs) when writing in Latin script ? 19th C issues of Journal für Ornithologie (printed in Latin script, while many German publications were printed in blackletter back then), for example, do not seem to use any ß at all. If so, finding the name spelled with -ss while in Latin script would not mean much...
- Preuss in a species description, in a scientific journal printed in Latin script : Entomologische Nachrichten
- Preuß in a note referring to the very same description, in the Deutsches Kolonialblatt, printed in blackletter : Deutsches Kolonialblatt

(My understanding is that the current convention in German would be to use ß after a diphthong like eu.)

He is given as a "Direktor, Professor, Doktor der Philosophie" in the death record; no mention of botany (or any other science).