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Introduction: Travel and Literature. 
had influenced his University studies (1862 — 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 1S70, Macassar; November — ^July, Minahassa and the neighbouring islands; July — 
September, Grorontalo, Togian and Central Celebes; September — November, South Celebes; 
January 1873, Macassar, Corontalo, Kema; August 1873, Macassar. His ornithological collec- 
tions from there are in Dresden, Berlin, London (British Museum: Walden Collection), etc.; 
they amounted to about 4600 specimens. Lord Walden treated of some of them in the 
Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. VIII, 1872; in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. VHI 1871, TX 1872, 
XIV 1874; Meyer himself among other places (see “Literature”) in the J. f. O. 1873, 404, 
where he made known that he had discovered 14 new species, and 25 which had not yet 
been recorded from Celebes; Bowley’s Orn. Misc. 1877 & 1878; Ibis 1879 (field notes); and 
Abbilduugen von Yogelskeletteu 1879 — 1897. Trichoglossns meyeri, Oyrtostomus frenatus nieyeri 
from Celebes, and Halcyon, vieyerl from Togian were named after him. He has translated some 
of Wallace’s works into German 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, which are probably in the Bremen Museum (see: 
Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 1873, 341). 
1873. Fischer (Georg). German. Army Surgeon in the Dutch 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). Ptiloinis fisclien from Celebes was named after him. Li 1880 — 1881 
he was stationed at Ternate (see: Bull. Ac. Imp. des Sc. St. Petersb. 1884 XI, p. 109). 
1873. Beccari (Odoardo). Born 1843. Italian. Naturalist. Sojourned in the East 
Indian Archipelago from 1865 — 1868 (Borneo), from 1871 — 1876 (Moluccas, Celebes, New 
Guinea), from 1878 — 1879 (Sumatra), and as a scientific collector takes almost equal rank 
with Wallace. In 1873 — 1874 he 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, VII, 641). Aefhopyga beccarii and Tuniix beccaru from Celebes were named after him. 
He lives at Badda in Chianti near Florence. 
1874. Bruijn (Antonins Augustus). Dutchman. He was an officer in the Dutch Navy, 
but settled on Ternate as son-in-law of the great merchant M. D. van Benesse van Duiven- 
bode (mentioned above p. 4), whose business he carried on after his death. He sent out 
hunters nith many of Ins ships and sold the bird-skins collected chiefly in Paris to plumassiers, 
but a large and highly valuable collection was presented by hun to the Genoa Museum, containing 
among others a series from North Celebes and Sangi (see: Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, VH, 
p. 641; ib. 1876, IX, p. 50). He died about the year 1880. 
1875. Musschenbroek (Samuel Cornelius Jan Willem van) 1827 — -1883. Dutchman. 
Naturalist. In the Civil Service of the Dutch Indies from 1855 — 1877, includiiig a two- 
yoars’ furlough in Europe. He was Besident of the Province of Manado from 1875 — 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 liis North Celebesian birds to the Dresden Musemn, others 
to Leyden (see: Notes of the Leyden Museum 1879, I, p. 50). He published some remarks on 
