Wirbeltiersammlungen im Natur - Naturhistorisches Museum Bern

The following list of collectors and donators is the result of a rather arbitrary selection
from more than 2000 names stored in our database.Criteria for their inclusion stem from a
number of factors, firstly, it is based on the number of specimens collected for or donated
to the museum (usually 50).Secondly, the essential role each person had concerning
either the development of the museum or the promotion of science at the museum.More
comprehensive information about the persons and institutions mentioned below is noted
in the “Basisdokumentation” and available upon request.
A problematic issue is the distinction between “collector” and “donator”, for in the majority
of cases the old sources do not specify whether a certain specimen was actually collected
by a certain person or acquired from some source.In the database the “donator” is
often the most recent owner of an item, regardless whether it was donated or sold to the
museum.Similarly, trading of specimens between museums – in former times a common
practice to acquire species missing in a collection – has not always been recorded in the catalogues.
PL
Airoldi Jean-Pierre (*1945)
Zoologiestudium in Bern (1967–73), Dissertation über Arvicola terrestris * (Abschluss
1977).Seit 1979 Lektor für Biologie an der Universität Bern.Das gut dokumentierte
Material übergab er 1977 dem NMBE; es stammt aus dem westlichen
Mittelland (VD), dem Jura (VD, NE) und den Alpen (Val d’Illiez, VS) und wurde
zwischen 1973–76 gesammelt.
Zoologist, studies at the University of Bern, 1977 Ph.D. thesis on Arvicola terrestris*.Lecturer
in biology at the University of Bern since 1979.Donated his well-documented collection
to the NMBE in 1977.
Total = 593: well-documented collection of Arvicola terrestris from 3 different regions of
Switzerland (western part of Plateau, Jura, and Valais), including 230 skulls with skins,
7 skeletons, 227 skulls, 41 pairs of fluid-preserved eyeballs, 83 nests, 54 cached food
samples, collected between 1973–76.
Lit.: Airoldi 1979 PS
Autobahnpolizei / Autobahnwerkhof des Kantons Bern / Highway Maintenance Base
Der Autobahnwerkhof Wankdorf (bei Bern) sowie die Autobahnpolizei sind als
Donatoren von Greifvögeln, Eulen sowie Säugetieren, v.a.aus den Wintermonaten,
aufgeführt.Viele Eingänge sind allerdings unter dem Namen einzelner Mitarbeiter
(Ramseier, De Monti, Gasser) eingetragen.
Highway Patrol / Highway Maintenance Base Bern.Several policemen and operators are
credited for donating traffic victims, especially diurnal raptors, owls and mammals, collected
mainly during the winter months.
Total = 89: 18 Mammalia, 71 Aves, mainly from the Canton of Bern (1972–78).
Lit: Marti 1993 PL
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