Emil Weiske
Emil Weiske was a German naturalist.
Emil Weiske was a professional collector of insects and birds. He emigrated to California in 1890 and to Hawaii in 1892. He made expeditions to the Fiji Islands in 1894 and to New Zealand and Australia in 1895. He became a professional collector in
New Guinea dealing especially in birds of paradise. Later expeditions were to Northeast Siberia, Lake Baikal and North-Mongolia and then to Patagonia and Paraguay Concepcion. His collections were mostly birds, mammals, molluscs, reptiles and amphibiens, beetles, butterflies, herbaria and ethnological artefacts.
His associates were, among others George Meyer-Darcis, Carl Ribbe, Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt, the Otto Staudinger Staudinger & Bang-Haas dealership Walter Rothschild and Henley Grose-Smith.
He maintained a private museum in Saalfeld where he gave lectures on natural history and his travels.
Insects.
Birds collected by Weiske are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Natural History Museum, London, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin Museum für Naturkunde and Naturkundemuseum Leipzig. Other collections are in Naturhistorisches Museum Wien and Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna.
He is honoured in the butterfly names Graphium weiskei and Delias weiskei and the bird name New Guinea hawk-eagle.
