You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard ofnatural scientists and anthropologists Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840-1911), Director of the Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum Dresden.

Dated Dresden, 21. December 1892, K. Zoological Museum.

Aimed at the researcher and insect dealer Carl Ribbe (1860-1934) in Radebeul-Oberlößnitz.

Transcription: "I previously received some drawings from you of a bronze timpani by Salega, but I can't find them again now. Have I returned them to you & under what conditions could I receive them again if you still have them. Sincerely AB Meyer."

Adolf Bernhard Meyer published the work "Bronze timpani from Southeast Asia."

Salega is a district in the south of Savai'i Island in Samoa.

5-pfennig postal stationery (9.2 x 14 cm).

Condition: Card browned and stained, with three Needle stitches on the lower edge. bPlease also note the pictures!

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About Adolf Bernhard Meyer and Carl Ribbe (source: wikipedia):

Adolf Bernhard Meyer or. Aron Baruch Meyer (* 11. October 1840 in Hamburg; † 5. February 1911 in Berlin) was a German natural scientist and anthropologist. His author abbreviation is “Meyer, A.”. Within zoology he was particularly active in the areas of primatology, bird and entomology and for this purpose undertook extensive research trips to the Malay Archipelago in the early 1870s. He had a second main creative phase as a museum director in Dresden.

Life:Meyer studied medicine and natural sciences at the universities in Göttingen, Vienna, Berlin and Zurich. His broad interest in geography, ethnography and, not least, animal science gave him the desire to travel to unknown areas of the world and explore them.

His first major research trip in 1870 took him to the north of the island of Sulawesi on the equator, then known as Celebes, and to the neighboring Philippines to the north. Two years later, Meyer traveled to New Guinea and was the first to cross the island at its narrowest point.

In 1874, Meyer succeeded Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach as director of the Royal Natural History Museum in Dresden and fundamentally redesigned it. A year later, as a result of the progressive differentiation between the natural sciences and the humanities, he founded the ethnological collections as a new part of the museum, which was then renamed the Royal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum in 1878. This museum was the common predecessor of today's Museums for Ethnology and for Animal Studies in Dresden, both of which were founded after 1945. Under Meyer's leadership, the botanical objects in the collections were transferred to the Royal Polytechnic Dresden and the botanical library to the Royal Library. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

Under Meyer's aegis, the museum's own magazine, the “Notices from the Royal Zoological Museum in Dresden,” appeared for the first time in 1875. Around 1880 he translated the works of Philip Lutley Sclater, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and became an advocate of Darwinian theories. In 1897, Meyer organized a large ornithological congress in Dresden and made significant contributions to the theory of the species concept.

After Meyer undertook two long study trips to important European and North American natural history museums around 1900, he had the Dresden museum brought up to date with the most modern research standards. Among other things, he separated the objects into a display collection for the public and a scientific study collection for research purposes, and he also introduced dust- and fire-proof steel cabinets.

Meyer's retirement in 1906 meant the end of an era for this Dresden museum. He died five years later.

Work: A large number of animals were described by Meyer for the first time and also given a taxon. Birds include, for example, the Carola ray-bird of paradise (Parotia carolae), the pennant bearer (Pteridophora alberti), the Princess Stephanie bird of paradise (Astrapia stephaniae), the red-capped mistletoe eater (Dicaeum geelvinkianum), the South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) and the Salvadorian spectacled bird (Zosterops salvadorii).

In addition to his bird studies, he also studied primates. In this department he named, among others, the Sangihe tarsier (Tarsius sangirensis), the wolf monkey (Cercopithecus wolfi) and the Tonkean macaque (Macaca tonkeana).

He also collected birds, beetles and butterflies, especially during his research trips to Southeast Asia. All of this is now part of the collections of the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden. Further collecting tours took him through the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark.

Honors: The narrow-tailed sicklehead, which lives in New Guinea and is a bird of paradise and was discovered in 1884, is named Epimachus meyeri according to Meyer. The red-winged bronze cuckoo (Chrysococcyx meyerii) is also named after him.

The storage and administration building of the State Natural History Collections in the northern Dresden district of Klotzsche is called Adolf-Bernhard-Meyer-Bau. In addition to the Museum of Animal Science and the Museum of Ethnology, the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden, the State Museum of Prehistory Dresden and the Natural History Central Library Dresden also have their depots here.

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The inhibitory nervous system of the heart. Berlin 1869.

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Your first publications on the “Origin of Species” along with a sketch of your life and a list of your writings. Erlangen 1870.

About three new parrots discovered in New Guinea. In: Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna. Volume 24, 1874, pp. 37–40 (biodiversitylibrary.org).

Images of bird skeletons. 2 volumes, Dresden 1879–1890. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51853

About the names Papua, Dayak and Alfuren. Vienna 1882. (Online at papuaweb.org; PDF; 1.3 MB)

Speech in memory of James Cook delivered on August 8th March 1879. Habel, Berlin 1882 ()

The deer antler collection in Moritzburg. 2 volumes, Dresden 1883–1887.

Publications of the Royal Ethnographic Museum in Dresden. 9 volumes, Dresden 1881–1903.

Together with Georg von der Gabelentz: Contributions to the knowledge of the Melanesian, Micronesian and Papuan languages, a first post. on Hans Conon's von der Gabelentz works “The Melanesian Languages”. In: Treatises of the Philological-Historical Class of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences Leipzig, Volume 8, No. 4, 1882.

Gurina in Obergailthal, Carinthia. Dresden 1885.

The burial ground of Hallstatt, Dresden 1885.

Album of Philippine Types I. 1885.

Our capercaillie, rackel and black deer and their varieties. With illustrations by Gustav Mützel. Vienna 1887.

Album by Celebes types. Dresden 1889.

Album by Filipino Types II. Dresden 1891.

Together with Lionel William Wiglesworth: The Birds of Celebes and the Neighboring Islands. Berlin 1898.

Album by Filipino Types III. Dresden 1904.

American Libraries and Their Aspirations. 1906.

Roman town of Agunt. 1908.

Carl Ribbe (*16. November 1860 in Berlin; † 27. August 1934 in Dresden) was a German researcher and entomologist.

Carl Ribbe was an insect dealer in Berlin. He traveled widely into the South Seas and explored Celebes, the Aru Islands, Ceram, Amboina, Key Island, Wumba Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, Shortland Island and "New Pomerania" (New Guinea). He also collected in Andalusia and southern Spain. His private collection of Lycaenidae is in the Natural History Museum in Dresden. Ribbe described many new species of butterflies, including Graphium weiskei. He also collected and sold ethnographic material from the Ethnological Museum and published an ethnographic travel report of his time in the Solomon Islands.

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Two years among the cannibals of the Solomon Islands: travel experiences and descriptions of the country and its people. Dresden-Blasewitz: Elbgau-Buchdruckerei, Hermann Beyer, 1903.

A collecting stay in Neu-Lauenburg (Duke of York in the Bismarck Archipelago). Dresden: Printing shop of the Wilhelm and Bertha against Baensch Foundation, 1910-1912.

Travel pictures from Melanesia. Dresden: German book workshops, 1924.

Guide to collecting in tropical countries. Stuttgart, A. Kernen, 1931.