Raymond de Dalmas

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Raymond de Dalmas (born February 5, 1862 in Paris , † February 4, 1930 ibid) was a French nobleman (Comte) and ornithologist and arachnologist .

Life

De Dalmas, a wealthy nobleman, built up a large collection of birds through his own collection and the ornithologist Eugene André, who he commissioned for Colombia and Venezuela . From 1893 to 1897 he collected from his yacht Chazalie in the Mediterranean , Morocco , Florida , the Caribbean , Venezuela and Central America. He was accompanied by scientists such as Franz de Schaeck (1866-1940; later University of Geneva) and students, for example Jan Versluys , who dealt with marine biology.

Some of the collection was lost in an accident, the rest went to the Rothschild Museum in Tring and the Munich State Zoological Collection . During his world trips on his yacht, de Dalmas was also in Japan in 1882/83 and wrote a book about his stay.

He published on tropical birds in the Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France, Ornis and in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club. These included initial descriptions, for example of bluebeard tangars . Some species, for example some marine invertebrates, are named after him, his yacht or his wife Emilie.

He later turned to arachnology and entomology . In 1918 he published a revision of the Prodidomidae spider family .

De Dalmas was a very good chess player and passionate photographer and trout angler. He was married and had three daughters.

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SURNAME Dalmas, Raymond de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ornithologist and arachnologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1930
Place of death Paris