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bear, however, no exact locality and date and were often mixed up with birds from other 
parts of the East Indian Archipelago. He appears to have been induced to collect birds 
from the visit of Mr. AVallace to the Minahassa in the year 1859. Eiidrepanis dukenbodei 
from Sangi was named after him. 
1863. Rosenberg (Karl Benjamin Hermann von) 1817—1888. German. Lived, with 
an interval of two years, from 1840 — 1871 in the East Indian Archipelago, first as soldier, 
then draughtsman, next in the Civil Service, finally as naturalist to the government. He 
travelled in North and Central Celebes, from April 1863 to August 1864 and wrote concerning 
it: “ Heistochten in de Afdeeling Gorontalo” (Amst. 1865), containing a few ornithological 
notes; the chapters on Celebes in his “Malayischen Archipel” (Leipsic 1878 — 1879) with 
more extensive remarks on the Avifauna p. 270 — 279); and “Ein Jager-Eldorado (Zool. 
Garten 1881, 164). His determinations are, hoAvever, not throughout trustworthy, as he was 
more of a sportsman than of a naturalist. He also sent some hunters to the Sa,ngi Islands 
in the year 1864. During his long stay in the Archipelago he made extensive ornithological 
collections, wliich now are in Damstadt 'see : Ahh. Natw. Ver. Bremen, 1876, V, 35), Leyden 
(see Schlegel’s Catalogues, etc.) and in some other Museums fe. g. Liiheck, see: J. f. 0. 
1877, 359; Dresden through von Schierhrand). Strix rosenbergi and Gymnocrex rosenheryi 
from Celebes were named after him. 
1864. Bernstein (Heinrich Agathon) 1828—1865. German. Naturalist. Sojourned 
in the East Indian Achipelago from 1855 — 1865, from 1860 onwards as naturalist to the 
Government, and died near New' Guinea. His extensive ornithological collections are in the 
Leyden Museum. Though he did not visit the Celehesian Area personally, except for a short 
stay at Macassar, he sent some of his native collectors to the Sula Islands in the year 1864 
(see S chlegel’s Catalogues, etc.). Bernstein's admirable onuthological papers do not concern 
Celebes directly. Van Musschenbroek published the diary of his last voyage to New Guinea 
(1864—1865) in the Bijdr. taal-, land- en volkenk. Ned. Ind. (4) VII, 1, 1883, containing much 
valuable information as to this lamented naturalist. Megapodius hermkini from Sula was 
named after him. 
1864. Hoedt (Dirk Samuel). Dutchman (half-caste of Amboina); secretary to the 
government; a passionate amateur naturalist; was nominated successor to Bernstein. He 
collected on Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli (1864) and on Great Sangi and Siao (1865) and 
forw'arded liis ornithological collections to the Leyden Museum (see: Schlegel’s Catalogues, 
etc.). He died some time after 1879, but w'e have not been able to ascertain the year. 
1865. Bickmore (Albert S.). Born 1839. American. Naturalist. In the East Indian 
Archipelago from 1865 — 1866 (see: Travels in the East Indian Archipelago, London 1868, 
transl. into German. 1869, and Dutch, 1873) and sojourned a short time in South Celebes 
(June 1865) and in North Celebes (December 1865 till January 1866). He published a list 
of birds collected there in the Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, as he remarks in his book, but 
we have not been able to find it in this Journal nor elsewhere. His ornithological collections 
will be in an American Museum. He now is Curator of the department of Public Instruction 
in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 
1870. Meyer (Adolf Bernhard). Born 1840. German. Naturalist. Travelled from 
lg70— 1873 in the East Indian Archipelago, having been induced to go out to this part of 
the globe in the hope that its innumerable islands would afford the possibility of studying the 
variation of species in the Darwinian sense, for the publication of the “Origin of Species” 
