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Olaf Oswald
Czech geologist, mineralogist, educator and science writer · 1890–1970
5,920 specimens, collected between 1923 and 1948 on 204 collecting days, now held in 4 departments.
On the labels as O. Oswald, Oswald, Olaf, Oswald, O., Olaf Oswald, Oswald.
- Specimens
- 5,920
- Type specimens
- 14
- Years in the field
- 26
- Islands
- 4
- Species
- 332
- Identifications
- 0
- In the Library
- 0
- Named after
- 3
Where Oswald collected
Specimens by decade
1920s1940s
Earliest: Philonesia, 1923 (Oʻahu). Latest: Philonesia interjecta, 1948.
Named for Oswald
Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Oswald. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.
From the field
