(j Introduction: Travel and Literature. 



liad influenced liis University studies (1S{)2 — 70), and he selected Celebes to begin with in 

 consequence of Wallace's brilliant speculations on the anomalous condition of its fauna, and 

 on the scientific problems awaiting solution there. He sojourned for over a year in Celebes: 

 November 1870, Iklacassar; November — July, Minahassa and the neighbouring islands; July — 

 September, Gorontalo, Togian and Central Celebes; September — November, South Celebes; 

 January 1S73, Macassar, Gorontalo, Kema; August 1S73, Macassar. His ornithological collec- 

 tions from there are in Dresden, Berlin, London (British Museum: Walden Collection), etc.; 

 they amounted to about 4000 specimens. Lord Walden treated of some of them in the 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. VIH, 1872; in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. VHI 1871, IX 1^72, 

 XIV 1874; Meyer liimself among other places (see "Literature") in the J. f. O. 1873, 404, 

 wliere he made known tliat ho had discovei-ed 14 new species, and 25 which had not yet 

 been recorded from Celebes; Rowley's Orn. Misc. 1877 & 1878; Ibis 1879 (field notes); and 

 Abbildungen von Vogelskeletten 1879 — 1897. TricltoghssKS meijeii, Cyrtostomits freiiatus meyeri 

 from Celebes, and IMci/on metjeri from Togian were named after him. He has translated some 

 of Wallace's works into (lerman and has been in charge of the Dresden Museum since 1874. 



1870. Conrad (Paul). German. Captain of a trading vessel. He collected 5 species of 

 birds at Macassar, South Celebes, in 1870, whicli are probably in the Bremen Museum (see: 

 Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1873, 341). 



1873. Fischer (Georg). German. Army Surgeon in the Dutcli Indies. Collected in 

 Celebes and Borneo and presented his ornithological collection of 1066 specimens from the 

 Minahassa and Sangi to the Darmstadt Museum (see: Abh. Natw. Ver. Bremen V, 1876, p. 35, 

 and t. c. 1878, p. 538). Ptilopits fl.scl/en' from Celebes was named after him. In 1880 — 1881 

 he was stationed at Ternate (see: Bull. Ac. Imp. des Sc. St. Petersb. 1884 XI, p. 109). 



1873. Beccari (Odoardo). Born 1843. Itahan. Naturalist. Sojourned in the East 

 Indian Archipelago from 1865 — 1868 (Borneo), from 1>571 — 1876 (Moluccas, Celebes, New 

 Guinea), from 187S — 1879 (Sumatra), and as a scientific collector takes almost equal rank 

 with Wallace. In 1873 — 1874 lie visited the South-eastern Peninsula of Celebes, as well 

 as the Minahassa and Macassar, and Count Salvadori has described his ornithological 

 collections from there, now in the Genoa Museum (see: Ann. Mus. Civ. di Stor. Nat. di Gen. 

 1875, VH, 641). Aefhopyga heccarii and Tiirnix beecarii from Celebes were named after liim. 

 He lives at Radda in Cliianti near Florence. 



1874. Bruijn (Antonius Augustus). Dutchman. He was an officer in the Dutch Navy, 

 but settled on Ternate as son-in-law of the great merchant IM. D. van Renesse van Duiven- 

 biide (mentioned al)ove p. i), whose business he carried on after liis death. He sent out 

 hunters with many of his ships and sold the bird-skins collected chiefly in Paris to plumassiers, 

 but a large and highly valuable collection was presented by him to the Genoa Museum, containing 

 among others a series from North Celebes and Sangi (see: Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. J 875, VH, 

 p. 641; ib. 1876, IX, p. 50). He died about the year 1880. 



1875. Musschenbroek (S a m u e 1 C o r n e 1 i u s Jan Will e m v an) 1 S27 — 1 883. Dutchman. 

 Naturalist. Li the Civil Service of the Dutch Indies from 1855 — 1877, including a two- 

 years' furlough in Europe. He was Resident of the Province of Manado from 1S75— 1876. 

 Here he collected ornithologically, as indeed he did in all branches of Natural History wherever 

 he was stationed (Java, Ternate), sending his collections to the Museums of the Netherlands. 

 He presented (1879) part of his North Celebesian birds to the Dresden Museum, others 

 to Leyden (see: Notes of the Leyden Museum 1879, I, p. 501. He pubhshcd some remarks on 



