Paul Hesse

Paul Hesse (3 February 1857 – 26 February 1938) was a German zoologist, who specialised in the study of Mollusca. In 1926, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Pennsylvania purchased a collection of about 50,000 specimens from Hesse, mainly focusing on non-marine molluscs from Europe.[1]

Works

Hesse's works included:

  • Hesse, P., 1898: Die Perlfischerei im Roten Meere. Zoologische Garten, 39: 382-385
  • Hesse, P., 1911: Nekrolog. Carl Agardh Westerlund, (1831-1908) Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 43: 167-171.
  • Hesse, P., 1917: Mollusken von Varna und Umgebung, Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft
  • Hesse, P., 1918: Die systematische Stellung von Pyramidula rupestris Drap., nebst Bemerkungen über einige verwandte Genera.Nachrichtsblattder Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 5(1): 110-120.
  • Hesse, P., 1925: On the anatomy of some Clausiliidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16 (4): 154-162.
  • Hesse, P., 1926: Die Nacktschnecken der palearktischen Region. Abhandlungen des Archiv für Molluskenkunde 2(1): 1-152.

References

  1. ^ Borrero, Francisco J.; Rosenberg, Gary (2015-08-01). "The Paul Hesse Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with a review of names for Mollusca introduced by Hesse". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 164 (1): 43–100. doi:10.1635/053.164.0109. ISSN 0097-3157.

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