Adolf Bernard Meyer

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Adolf Bernard Meyer (11 October 1840 Hamburg - 22 August 1911 Dresden) was a German anthropologist, ornithologist and entomologist. Meyer was educated at the universities of G ttingen, Vienna, Z rich and Berlin. He became director of the Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum in Dresden in 1874 and continued in that position until his retirement in 1905. He travelled in the East Indies at the end of the nineteenth century. The Brown Sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri) was named after him when the species was discovered in 1884. He published a classification of birds, among them the Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae), the Stephanie's Astrapia (Astrapia stephaniae), the Red-capped Flowerpecker (Dicaeum geelvinkianum), and the Takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri).