Albert Stewart Meek ( English Albert Stewart Meek ; 1871-1943) - English naturalist and zoologist-collector of bird skins and insects, as well as a seller of bird feathers. He worked closely with Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert . For the Museum of Natural History in Tring, he collected the largest collection of bird skins and insects at the beginning of the 20th century . In some publications, an erroneous naming of the name Alfred S. Meek is found .
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Wagner " . |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 eponyms
- 3 Works
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
Mick was born into the family of a natural history trader in London. In 1894, Walter Rothschild accepted him as a collector of birds and insects at the Zoological Museum. Mick first began collecting in England, and then traveled in a short time to Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and Bougainville , where he discovered several new bird taxa, including the species of Corvus meeki ravens. In 1904, he visited Choiselles Island , where he collected the last 4 specimens of the extinct crested, large-billed pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ). During an expedition to New Guinea in 1906, Mick obtained a typical specimen of Queen Alexandra’s bird wing ( Ornithoptera alexandrae ), the world's largest known day butterfly.
Mick was an expert on feathers in the Pacific. In 1913, during his visit to the Papuans, he noticed that the feathers of more than 23 dead birds (in particular, birds of paradise ) were used only for the central part of the leader’s head jewelry. [1]
Mick's collection of bird skins and insects is one of the most outstanding exhibits of the Museum of Natural History in London. Another part of his collection that Walter Rothschild was forced to sell in the 1930s is kept at the American Museum of Natural History .
Eponyms
Several taxa of birds were named after Mika, including the crested pigeon Mika ( Microgoura meeki ), decorated with Lori Meeka ( Charmosyna meeki ), Woodpecker Meeka ( Micropsitta meeki ), Corvus meeki , Tagul white-eyed ( Zosterops adorable , Ninox meeki ) and a yellowish thimelian honey sucker ( Ptiloprora meekiana ).
Compositions
- Albert S. Meek, A Naturalist in Cannibal Land, 1913, Fischer Unwin, London
Notes
Literature
- Rothschild, Miriam 1983. Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, butterflies and history . Balaban, Philadelphia.
- Rothschild, Walter, & Ernst Hartert. 1913. List of the collections of birds made by Albert S. Meek in the lower ranges of the Snow Mountains, on the Eilanden River, and on Mount Goliath during the years 1910 and 1911. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 473-527. Notes on Lepidoptera collected by Albert S. Meek in Irian Jaya during 1910 and 1911, including descriptions of localities
- Barbara & Richard Mearns, The Bird Collectors , Academic Press, 1998, ISBN 0-12-487440-1
Links
- Albert Starth Meek Biography (eng; PDF; 3.66 MB)