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Another very important paper was published by Hidalgo around 1907. Although it was not illustrated, it was the first
significant collation of all the previous workers' efforts; he compiled a list of all known cowries and their authors, and
attempted to relate the species and their variants in an orderly way. Hidalgo failed, however, to recognize geographically
remote populations as distinct races; thus we have in Hidalgo another lumper--but nevertheless a very important man in the
Cypraea field.
Of course we all know about the Kiener, (1845), Reeve, (1845), and Sowerby, (1870) monographs; these are primary tools for a
worker in Cypraea, as these authors furnished excellent colored illustrations of the species known to them. I will not dwell
on these three, as they should be fairly familiar to most of you.
I would, however, like to show you the plates of one of the lesser-known cowrie monographs, the 1881 work by Weinkauff; I
have color slides of these plates with me tonight and am happy to share them with you after having to search the world over
-- unsuccessfully -- to try to obtain a copy of this rare book. These slides were made from a borrowed copy, one of the very
few known, remaining at this time in private hands.
The parade of cowry-authors down through the years is an impressive one: Gaskoin, Gray, Jousseaume, Hidalgo, Menke, Brazier,
Hedley, Cox, Iredale, Cotton, and perhaps the greatest workers of them all, the Schilders, who have devoted their lives to
the research of every possible facet that could be considered as pertinent to the study of Cypraea.
I'd like to single out just two or three of the more important of the systematic works in this family that have played a
major role in the various revisions that have taken place. First of these is the work published in 1884 by Jousseaume in the
Bulletin of Zoology in France. Jousseaume established, in this paper, many of the generic groups still in use today --
defining their limits and grouping species roughly into these genera.
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