ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922 - Travaux

More documents

Recommendations

Info

490 GABRIELA ANDREI, CORNELIU PANDELE such circumstances, we join him to the Academy, as foreign corresponding member. Thus, we will reward his work for the knowledge of a part of the Romanian fauna). I. Kalinderu, the chairman of the meeting, announced in the end that «propunerea de alegere întrunind douã treimi, d-l A. L. Montandon a fost ales membru corespondent strãin în Secþiunea ºtiinþificã» (election proposal being agreed by two thirds, Mr A. L. Montandon was elected foreign corresponding member in the Scientifical Department). It is worth mentioning that, within the same meeting, several personalities were elected by the Academy as active or corresponding members. Today, they are very well known: D. Onciul, L. Mrazec, the General C. I. Brãtianu, Sextil Puºcariu a.s.o. Last but one candidate proposed by the Scientifical Department was Emil Racoviþã, of 35 years old, that time deputy director at the Arago Marine Laboratory from Banyuls-sur-Mer. He was elected Romanian corresponding member, with 25 „pro“ and 1 „against“, by 26 voters. 1905 – he published Notes supplémentaires pour la faune nevroptérologique de la Roumanie in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe. He was decorated with Steaua României (Star of Romania) (Montandon F.-J., op. cit.). We do not know exactly the date of this event, yet, which we place, for the time being, between 1905-1913 8 . 1906, 6 th of June – in Bucharest the opening of the “General Exhibition of Romania” (also named “Jubilee National Exhibition”) which marked three events: 40 reign years of the King Carol I, 25 years since the proclamation of the Romanian Kingdom, and 1,800 years since the emperor Traian’s colonization in Dacia. The official who had to organize the exhibition park was Ion N. Lahovari, Minister of the Estate, and the general inspector of the exhibition was the savant Constantin Istrati, doctor in chemistry and medicine in Paris, member of the Romanian Academy (Andrei, M.-D. 2006). The Museum of Natural History of Bucharest, by his officials, Gr. Antipa, R. Dombrowski, A. L. Montandon and Popa Burcã, participated intensively to the organization of the great exhibition, displayed on the place where „Carol Park” was to be made on this occasion. Grigore Antipa discussed permanently with the general inspector of the exhibition, Dr. Constantin Istrati. Together with Dombrowski, he made the plans of the zoological park and the exhibition dedication to the Romanian fishfarms, and «…le musée y présenta une collection de 11 espèces de mammifères, 46 oiseaux, 7 amphibiens et reptiles, 22 espèces de poissons, insectes nouveaux et rares de la faune de Roumanie, des publications. Séparément, Arnold L. Montandon exposa une collection d’insectes au pavillion «Mines et Carrières» (Marinescu, Ionescu op. cit.) (Fig. 4). 1906 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Notes sur la Faune Entomologique de la Roumanie (Coleoptera) (Montandon, 1906 a). In this paper, dated «Bucarest, Janvier 1906», Montandon presents a division of Romanian in regions: Carpathian, sub-Carpathian, plains, hill of Moldavia and so on, where he marked each collecting place, when case indicating the “district” or the nearby areas of a more important locality. 1906 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Notes sur la Faune Malacologique de la Roumanie (Montandon, 1906 b). 1907 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Contributions à la Faune Entomologique de la Roumanie. Hémiptères- Hétéroptères (Montandon, 1907 a). 1907 – in Hungary it is published Notes sur les Holoptilidae* (Montandon, 1907 b).
ARNOLD – LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922) 491 1907, April – Montandon’s last signature on paylist of the Museum (Andrei, 1981) 9 . 1908 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Notes sur la Faune Entomologique de la Roumanie. Additions au Catalogue des Coléoptères (Montandon, 1908). The paper, dated «Bucarest, Mars 1908», is very interesting because it includes his thoughts on some forerunners’ papers, especially those of Lamarck, who was very much admired by him, besides the about 500 new forms for the Romanian fauna. 1909 – in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe he published Les pseudoscorpions de Roumanie, representing the list of these arachnids collected from Bucharest, Comana, Sinaia, Azuga, Mãcin, Zorleni (Montandon, 1909 a). 1909 – in Hungary he published the paper Nepidae et Belostomidae. Notes diverses et descriptions d’espèces nouvelles* (Montandon, 1909 b). 1910 – he published A propos des soi-disant neutres chez les insectes. (Montandon, 1910 c). It is also interesting Montandon’s comment on a A. Lameere’s article, disapproving with much elegance his opinion regarding the intelligence. Montandon considered that there were a certain degree of intelligence in all creatures. He will develop this idea later, in his paper from 1915, left in manuscript (Montandon, 1915). 1910 – Hans Wagner published Beitrag zur entomologischen Fauna Rumäniens. Die Arten der Gattung Apion Herbst (co 1) vorzugweise gesammelt von A. L. Montandon. 1910 – Montandon made an obituary for the entomologist George W. Kirkaldy in Buletinul Societãþii de ªtiinþe, using the most laudatory terms (Montandon, 1910 a). 1910 - Notes supplémentaires pour la faune nevroptérologique de la Roumanie (2 e ). (Montandon, 1910 b). 1911, 7 th of March – his wife, Césarine, died in Bucharest (Montandon, F.- J. op. cit.). That time address of the family was 2 Fabrica de chibrituri Str. The house, built in 1909, still exists, across Filaret bus terminal (Figs 5, 6). 1913 – in Buletinul Secþiunii ªtiinþifice a Academiei Române he published Notes et description de deux espèces nouvelles (Montandon, 1913). 1913 – O. M. Reuter’s death year, Finnish hemipterologist. According to Sienkiewicz, this year represent the beginning of the decline of Montandon’s scientifical activity (Sienkiewicz op. cit.). At Zorleni – Tutova (today in Vaslui County), enjoying R. Bolomey’s company, he wrote En marge du procès de la Science, a philosophical paper, probably the last printed one. It was published in Geneva, in 1914 and it was left, unfortunately, in the deposits of the Publishing House Fréd. Boissonnas & C ie , because of the war 10 . Also, there was a German version, translated by Carmen Sylva 11 . We do not know, yet, if it was distributed. In a letter to G. T. Kirileanu, dated 27 th /9 th of February 1915, Montandon said: « … traducerea germanã nu ºtiu unde s’a tipãrit, am numai scrisoarea lui Dall’Orso care îmi face cunoscut deja din primãvara anului trecut, cã traducerea în limba germanã era gata…» 11 (I don’t know if the German translation was printed, I have only Dall’Orso’s letter, from the spring of last year, where he informed me that the German translation had been already finished) (Pandele, 1974).
Page 1 and 2: Travaux du Muséum National d’His
Page 3 and 4: ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 - 1
Page 11: ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 - 1
Page 31: ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 - 1

ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922 - Travaux

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?