Gerlof Mees
Gerlof Fokko Mees (16 June 1926 – 31 March 2013Zosteropidae, comprising the white-eyes.
Mees was born at
University of Leiden where he studied biology, obtaining his doctorate in 1956 with a break in Java as part of the Dutch forces during the Indonesian war of independence. It was during his time in Java that he took a special interest in white-eyes (Zosterops) and also an introduction to George Junge. During 1953-54 he visited Trinidad and Tobago and collected bird specimens. He was an assistant at the department birds of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden from May 1955 to June 1957. His doctoral thesis was on the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae. Thereafter he became Curator of Vertebrates at the Western Australian Museum from 1958 to 1963. While in Australia he met and married Veronica. The death of Junge led to his appointment back in the Netherlands as Curator of Birds at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden. He held the position until his retirement, after which he returned to Western Australia in 1991, and lived in Perth and Northcliffe.[2] He died in Busselton, Western Australia.[3]
He gave the first description of the unusual fish species, the
Mees's nightjar, the proposed name for the new species Caprimulgus meesi, is named for him.[6]
References
- ^ "Obituaries | the West Announcements".
- ^ (in Dutch) Holthuis L.B. (1995) 1820 - 1958 : Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie PDF
- ^ Roselaar, C.S. (Kees) (2014). "Gerlof Fokko Mees (1926-2013)" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 134 (1): 1–3.
- ^ Mees, G. F. 1961. Description of a new fish of the family Galaxiidae from Western Australia. J. Roy. Soc. West. Aust. 44: 33-38.
- ^ Berra, Tim M. (1995). "Lepidogalaxias_salamandroides". Version 01. The Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
- Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden)Vol. 350 pp. 7-45
Further reading
- Bright Sparcs entry on Gerlof Mees accessed 1 November 2007
- A selection of articles by G.F. Mees for the Leiden museum, Repository.naturalis.nl Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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