[Nhcoll-l] E.R Wagner: Insect collector

[Eli Wyman]

Hi,

  E.R. Wagner is almost certainly Emilio Roger Wagner, who was an
Argentinian archaeologist, who also had a passion for entomology.  He was
active in that period and died in 1949. Here is a wiki on him and his
brother Duncan.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__es.wikipedia.org_wiki_Emilio-5Fy-5FDuncan-5FWagner&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=4VUJyfc-BwqeQic36EN6cQRo8n_uBdsthvYkYEnfGb4&s=OB2oM_i6_mwuWi6WWdRGqKmDyZu-E_C8WL2ug_cbCvw&e= 

Cheers,
Eli Wyman


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Christopher Kemp <cjkemp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Friends,
>
> I'm looking at a paper about a beautiful species of large fly just
> described: *Gauromydas papavero*. A great species with a long shelf life.
> It was first collected in Argentina in 1930-something by a collector called
> E.R. Wagner. I've searched for him and he's collected an awful lot of
> stuff, 1903, 1911, active for decades in South America. But I don't have
> any biographical information at all. Don't know what E or R stand for, or
> where he was from, or when he died. Anything, folks?
>
> --ck
>
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