Hello fellow worm-people!
Savigny collected from Egypt and from Syria and also from other
locations and put a melange of locations in his book.
I am making a last ditch effort to try to get a more precise location
for Savigny's Lycoris fucata (nereidid). In 2nd edition, cited
by Hartmann-Schroder as 1820 (but on title plate
of volume found in our rare book collection listed as 1826), Savigny
notes L. fucata is from "ocean", no location given, having been collected
by M. Homberg and conveyed to him by Cuvier. Does anyone know
where Homberg was collecting? Was he also a part of the French
Expedition to the Middle East?
Any assistance on this ancient (Napoleonic) history much appreciated.
Thanks.
Nechama Ben-Eliahu
Curator, Section of Invertebrates, The Scientific Collections
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, J"m 91904.
Fax 972-2-666804; telephone 972-2-658 46 33.
Nechama at vms.huji.ac.il
