Arnold Foerster Notebooks
Object Details
- Topic
- Entomology
- Hymenoptera
- Ichneumonidae
- Entomologists
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- Arnold Foerster Notebooks
- Historical Note
- Arnold Foerster (1810-1884) was a German entomologist of distinction.
- Extent
- 0.02 cu. ft. (1 microfilm reel)
- Date
- 1843, 1864 and undated
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Identifier
- Record Unit 7130
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Citation
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7130, Arnold Foerster Notebooks
- Introduction
- This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
- Descriptive Entry
- This collection consists of notebooks which contain keys and descriptions, mostly of genera of Hymenoptera, almost entirely the Ichneumonidae. The greater part of the notebooks have been published, but contain unpublished information. See Foerster, "Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen des Ichneumonen," Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereines, volume 25, pp. 135-221, Bonn, 1868. See also J. F. Perkins, "On the Type Species of Foerster's Genera (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, volume II, no. 8, London, 1962. The notebooks are written in German, Greek, and Latin.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510768507-1503510768509-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
