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- Title
1838-ban a krakkói Jagelló Egyetem lepkegyűjteményt vásárolt Frivaldszky Imrétől.
- Authors
ZSOLT, BÁLINT; PYRCZ, TOMASZ WILHELM
- Abstract
Imre Frivaldszky (1799-1870) was a major figure in Hungarian scientific life. In 1838 he was elected as an ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He kept in touch with acknowledged botanists and entomologists of his time. He exchanged materials with them or sold to them, purchased their books. After the events of 1848-1849, Frivaldszky destroyed his foreign correspondence, so that his diversified relations could only be reconstructed in a very general way on the basis of biographical data and some scattered documents. This paper documents and discusses the historical data on Frivaldszky found in the inventory of the zoological collections of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, which began in 1835. In 1838, the university purchased 200 moth specimens from Frivaldszky for 3,000 pennies (~50 silver florins), representing 108 Central European bombycid and sphingid species. We document the entry for Frivaldszky of the inventory book. We give brief notes about the amount paid by the university at the time of the purchase, and briefly discuss the more interesting species: Gynaephora selenitica; Hyles hippophaes and H. nicaea; Saturnia spini; Stygia australis. We suppose that the person who corresponded with Frivaldszky was the Jagellonian University professor Alojzy Rafal Estreicher (1786-1852). We dedicate our work to the memory of the academic Imre Frivaldszky, who passed away 150 years ago. With one table and 14 figures.
- Publication
Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici, 2020, Vol 112, p1
- ISSN
0521-4726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53019/AnnlsMusHistNatHung.2020.112.1