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Oswald Heer
Heer
naturalist · palaeontologist · foreign visitor
Heer was a naturalist who made phenological observations in Madeira in 1850–51 and studied the plants of the Quinta do Vale. He identified 25 species among the fossil leaves of São Jorge and described the ant Oecophthora pusilla. His Madeiran herbarium is presumed to be in the Zurich Botanical Garden.
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- Ants — Naturalist who published a description of the ant Oecophthora pusilla in the mid-nineteenth century.
- Phenological observations — Naturalist who made phenological observations in Madeira in 1850 and 1851.
- Quintas — Scientist who in 1852 studied the plants of the Quinta do Vale.
- Fossil leaf beds — Scientist who studied the fossil leaves of São Jorge and identified 25 species among them.
- Atlantis (island) — Naturalist who, with Unger, found the Atlantis hypothesis reasonable to explain shared flora and fauna.
- Phenology — Naturalist who studied Madeiran phenology in 1851.
- Herbaria — Naturalist whose Madeiran herbarium is presumed to be in the Zurich Botanical Garden.
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