Jan Kalinowski


Jan Kalinowski was a Polish explorer and collector of biological specimens who worked in Asia and South America. He was among the first Europeans to explore the fauna of the Korean Peninsula, collecting for the museum of Count Władysław Michał Pius Branicki of Poland from 1885 to 1888. A number of species described from his collections have been named after him including Kalinowski's mastiff bat, Kalinowski's Oldfield mouse, Kalinowski's agouti, and Kalinowski's mouse opossum (Hyladelphys kalinowskii