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Article Nº 3264 Scientist or naturalist Vol. III · p. 394

Rothschild (Baron Charles)

Original title: Rothschild (Barão Charles)

English banker and entomologist who named a flea found on a Cory's shearwater by the 1922 Madeiran expedition to the Selvagens.

A wealthy English banker and distinguished entomologist, resident in London. He intends to study some of the insects of our archipelago and has already determined a species of flea found on the Cory’s shearwater (cagarra) by the Madeiran scientific expedition that visited the Selvagens in 1922, giving it the name Xenopsylla gratiosa.

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  • A Madeiran scientific expedition visited the Selvagens islands.
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