PS Re: [Annelida] Collection localities by Schmarda (1861)
Geoff Read
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Mon Feb 7 03:25:04 EST 2011
Actually volume 3 of Schmarda's travels (I came upon only vol 3) is digitised on google books, so you all can see what I mean about readability.
Hopefully not so much a problem for German nationals.
The ornate capitals look stylish, but probably will not ocr very well automatically.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0mNCAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ludwig+K.+Schmarda%27s+Reise+um+die+Erde+in+den+Jahren+1853-1857
One can download the pdf freely, but the version one gets isn't ocr'd.
I'd be interested to hear if any useful information is found.
Geoff
>>> On 7/02/2011 at 11:45 a.m., "Geoff Read" <g.read from niwa.co.nz> wrote:
> Kirk,
>> Not to forget there is also Schmarda's general account of his travels - a 3
> volume opus of over one thousand pages, unfortunately printed in an ornate
> typeface that is hard to read, let alone OCR successfully. In the first vol
> I think there is a table of localities.
>> Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Ludwig K. Schmarda's Reise um die Erde in den Jahren
> 1853-1857. Braunschweig, G. Westermann.
> Vol 1. Ceylon. Vol 2. Indian Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, South sea,
> Chile, Valparaiso, Panama. Vol 3. Jamaica, Kingston, Ecuador, New Granada,
> Nicaragua, USa & Canada, Cuba
>> Geoff
>>>>> "J. Kirk Fitzhugh" 02/07/11 11:26 AM >>>
> All,
> An arachnid systematist, Stuart Longhorn, is looking for polychaete
> localities from L.K. Schmarda's (1861) travels in Honduras (or
> Nicaragua), Ecuador, and Peru, that he published in his "Neue wirbellose
> Thiere beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde 1853 bis
> 1857. Vol. I. Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden.
>> Pt. 2: 1-164.
>> Stuart is trying to determine localities where Schmarda collected marine
> specimens, in an effort to find type localities for some tarantula
> species he also described. If you might be familiar with locations in
> Honduras (or Nicaragua), Ecuador, and/or Peru from which Schmarda
> collected/described polychaetes, you can contact Stuart at stul from pdx.edu.
> He would be very grateful for any input.
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