Grigory Grum-Grshimailo
Grigory Yefimovich Grum-Grshimailo (
. In literature his name is sometimes spelled as Grigor Efimowitsch Grumm-Grzhimailo or Grigory Yefimovich Grumm-Grzhimaylo.Life and work
Born in St. Petersburg, his early interest was in the phylloxera problem in the vineyards of N. Y. Danilevsky. He wrote his first scientific work at the age of 21 on some Lepidoptera of the Crimea (1882, vol. 8 of the Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society).
He was associated with Professor
From 1882, Grum-Grshimailo studied Lepidoptera from the
His third expedition was in 1886 along the Kara-Darya, via Pass Kugart, then up along the Naryn valley to the Narynsky Fortress (now the town of Naryn), and from there to the south toward At-Bashi and further to the southwest along the broad valley of At-Bashi River, by the At-Bashi Mt. Range, along the Great Silk Route to Tash Rabat and Chatyr-Köl. They went until Kashgar and then via Pass Irkeshtam and back to Osh.
Expeditions conducted with his younger brother Lieutenant M. E. Grum-Grshimailo between 1889 and 1890 were intended to bring back specimens of Przewalski's horse . After capturing two wild horses in the vicinity of Gushen (44° N 90°30' E), and no longer afraid that shooting would frighten the animals away they managed to collect 1,048 bird specimens. They traveled 8,600 km.[1]
He made several more expeditions in the succeeding years but he later lost much of the early interest in entomology owing in part to a conflict with the sponsor of his expeditions. A term was that the materials he collected were to go to Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhaylovich Romanov, but he needed a private collection. He was accused of embezzling material and financial difficulties made him sell part of his collection to Henry John Elwes.
He was awarded the
Publications
- Partial list
- Novae species et varietas Rhopalocerum Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 22: 303-307 (1888)
- Le Pamir et la faune lépidoptérologique. Mém. lépidop. Ed. N. M. Romanoff 4 volumes 576 p., 21 pl. (1890)
- Lepidoptera nova in Asia centrali novissime lecta et descripta Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 25 (3-4): 445-465 (1891)
- Lepidoptera nova vei parum cognita regionis palaearcticae. I. Ezhegod. Zool Mus. Imp. Akad. Nauk, Ann. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sc. Volume 4 (1899) (in Russian).
- Lepidoptera nova vel parum cognita regionis palaearcticae. II. Ezhegod. Zool. Mus. Imp. Acad. Nauk, Ann Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sc., Volume 7 (1902) (in Russian)
Collections
Many of Grum-Grshimailo's specimens of Lepidoptera and
Notes
- ^ Rodolphe Meyer De Schauensee 1984. The Birds of China. Oxford University Press
- ^ "Constantine Medal of the IRGS". Russian Geographical Society. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Grumm-Grzhim.
References
- Grieshuber, J. & Churkin, S. (2003a): Grum-Grshimailo's journey through China with notes on some Colias taxa. Helios IV: 224-243, 1 map.