Eduard Heinrich Graeffe

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Eduard Heinrich Graeffe or Gräffe (27 December 1833, Zurich 23 April 1916 Ljubljana) was a Swiss zoologist and naturalist. As an entomologist, he specialised in Hymenoptera, Diptera and Hemiptera.

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From around 1860, Graeffe was in the employ of Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, a wealthy shipping magnate from Hamburg. Graeffe was hired in order to organize Godeffroy's natural history collection as a scientific museum, the "Museum Godeffroy". [1] [2] [3] From 1862 to 1873, he was based in Samoa, [2] conducting scientific research and collecting specimens from throughout the South Pacific. Among his writings of the expedition was: Reisen im Innern dei Insel Viti Levu (in: Neujahrsblatt der Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich auf das Jahr 1868, Nr. 70). [4]

From 1875 to 1898, he worked as an inspector at the Zoological Station in Trieste. [5] The Fiji whistler (Pachycephala graeffii) is named in honor, [6] [7] as is Arthrocormus graeffii, a botanical species described by German bryologist Karl Müller. [8]

Selected works

Collections

Initially Graeffe's insect collection was in Das Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg. This collection was sold and Graeffe's specimens (and the material he had worked on) were divided between Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste (Hymenoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera and Hemiptera) and the Naturhistorisches Museum (Hymenoptera, Orthoptera Diptera and Hemiptera). At least some material also ended up in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

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  1. Discovery of Australia's Fishes A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930 by Brian Saunders
  2. 1 2 Collectors Index Herbarium Lichen herbaria
  3. Note: The museum contained insects from Australia, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, the Phoenix Islands etc., and also functioned as a dealership in natural history material.
  4. Reisen im Inneren der Insel Viti-Levu Archived 2013-10-20 at the Wayback Machine Neujahrsblatt der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich auf das Jahr 1868, Nr. 70.
  5. Google Books Collected Papers by Charles Atwood Kofoid
  6. Avibase Fiji Whistler (Pachycephala graeffii)
  7. Helm dictionary of scientific bird names - SlideShare Archived 2015-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen. [Hauptbd.], Volume 1 by JanPeter Frahm, Jens Eggers
  9. Google Books Contributo alla Fauna dei Ditteri dei dintorni di Trieste
  10. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenfauna Dalmatiens, Montenegros und Albaniens
  11. WorldCat Search (publications)
  12. Google Books (publications)