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2 unusual facts about Peter Simon Pallas


Ustad Mansur

The Siberian Crane painting was made well before it was formally described and given a binomial name by Peter Simon Pallas in 1773.

Vasily Zuyev

Zuyev participated in the academy's expeditions (1768–74) under the command of Peter Simon Pallas.


Bird collections

Early scientific bird collections included those belonging to Pallas and Naumann in Germany, Latham and Tunstall in England and Adanson in France.

Helminthology

During that period the authors Peter Simon Pallas, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Otto Friedrich Müller, Johann Goeze, Friedrich Zenker, Carl Asmund Rudolphi and Johann Gottfried Bremser started systematic scientific studies of the subject.

Morten Thrane Brünnich

Brünnich corresponded with many foreign naturalists including Linnaeus, Peter Simon Pallas and Thomas Pennant.

Pallas's Leaf Warbler

Pallas's Leaf Warbler is named after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who discovered it on the Ingoda River in Siberia in 1811; the species name proregulus derives from its similar size to the Goldcrest Regulus regulus.


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