Debabrata Lahiri
Debabrata B. Lahiri, Indian statistician (Rangoon, Myanmar 17 February 1913 – 27 March 2003) Recognized as a world-famous figure in the theory of sampling Introduced circular systematic sampling in the design of sample surveys Lahiri method of sampling with probability proportional to aggregate size leading to unbiased ratio estimation A method for sample selection providing unbiased ratio estimates. Bull. Int. Stat. Inst. 33(2):133-40, 1951 EPONYMY Lahiri theorem Lahiri-Midzuno-Sen strategy Lahiri sampling scheme
Damaso Antonio Larrañaga
Damaso Antonio Larrañaga Pires, Uruguayan theologist, naturalist, geographer and philologist (Montevideo 10 December 1771 – Montevideo 06 February 1848) Described 380 plant species, 216 arthropods and 88 other animals beyond a number of fossils (despite the fact his writings were published much time after and lost the priority) Determined internal structure of Dasypus megatherium Kept contact to eminent naturalists such as Bonpland, Saint-Hilaire and Freycinet SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY His writings were published between 1922 and 1930 as Escritos de Don Damaso Antonio Larrañaga by Instituto Historico y Geographico del Uruguay Atlas (Parte I. Botanica. Parte II. Zoologia, paleontologia y mapas) Botanica (1820-4) Gramatica abipona Noticias sobre los indios minuanes (1813) Compendio del idioma de la Nación Chaná Diario del viaje desde Montevideo al pueblo de Paysandu (1815) Memoria geológica sobre la piedra de cal de Buenos Aires por um hijo del pais Memoria geológica sobre la formación del Río de la Plata, deducida de sus conchas fósiles escrita por lo año 1819. An. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 1:3-12, 1894 HONOURS Correspondent Member, Société de Geographie de Paris
Christian Ludwig Landbeck
Christian Ludwig Landbeck, German-born Chilean taxidermist and zoologist (Ostheim, Elsass 11 December 1807 – Santiago de Chile 03 September 1890) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA AVES With Philippi Species Accipiter chilensis 1864 Agriornis albicauda 1863 Aphrastura masafucrae 1866 Cinclodes albiventris 1861 Cinclodes atacamensis 1857 Fulica rufifrons 1861 Geositta isabellina 1864 Idiopsar erythronotus 1861 Leptasthenura striata 1863 Muscisaxicola cinereus 1864 Poospiza ornata 1865 Poospiza tulica 1861 Pteroptochos castaneus 1864 Recurvirostra andina 1861 Sicalis auriventris 1864 Sternura lorata 1861 Subspecies Agriornis albicauda albicauda 1863 Cinclodes albiventris albiventris 1861 Cinclodes atacamensis atacamensis 1857 Fregetta grallaria segethi 1860 Geositta cunicularia frobeni 1864 Geositta rufipennis fasciata 1864 Leistes bellicosus albipes 1861 Leptasthenura striata striata 1863 Muscisaxicola cinereus cinereus 1864 Onychoprion fuscatus luctuosus 1866 Saltator aurantiirostris albociliaris 1861 Alone Species Geositta antarctica 1880 Pseudocolopteryx citreola 1864 Spinus crassirostris 1877 Subspecies Spinus crassirostris crassirostris 1877 Mammalia (with Philippi) Species Histiotus montanus 1861 Subspecies Histiotus montanus montanus 1861
Cheng-chao Liu & Shuqin Hu
Cheng-chao Liu or Zheng Zhao Liu, Chinese herpetologist (Tai’an, Shandong Province 12 August 1900 – Chengdu, Sichuan Province 09 April 1976) DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA VALID TAXA Paramegophrys 1964 Vibrissaphora 1945 Species 66 (30 of them described joint to his wife) HONORS (Amphibia) Liua Zhao & Hu 1983 Liuixalus Li, Che, Zhao, Bain & Zhang 2008 Liurana Dubois 1987 Liuhurana Fei, ye, Jiang, Duboi & Chen 2010 His wife, Shuqin Hu, herpetologist (Changshu, Jiangsu Province 13 February 1914 – Chengdu 10 December 1992) DESCRIBED AMPHIBIA VALID TAXA Genera Brachytarsophrys 1983 with Tian Liua 1983 with Zhao Species At least 36 (30 of them described joint to her husband) HONORS Huia Yang 1991 (Amphibia) Liuhurana Fei, ye, Jiang, Duboi & Chen 2010
Charles Pugsley Lounsbury
Charles Pugsley Lounsbury, US-born South African agricultural entomologist (Brooklyn, New York State 20 September 1872 – Pretoria 07 June 1955) Built the first governamental fumigation chamber using hydrogen cyanide to sterilise imported plants in the world (1896) Acquired an international reputation as an expert on ticks Demonstrated that heartwater is transmitted by bont tick (Amblyomma hebraeum) Tick-heartwater experiments. Agric. J. Cape of Good Hope 16:682-7, 1900 Demonstrated that malignant jaundice in dogs (biliary fever) is transmitted by the adult dog tick (Haemaphysalis leachii) Transmission of malignant jaundice of the dog by a species of tick. Agric. J. 19:714-24, 1901 Demonstrated that East Coast Fever is transmitted by the brown tick, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (1903) Ticks and African Coast Fever. Agric. J. 28:634-54, 1906 Showed that redwater (caused by Babesia bigemina) is transmitted by Boophilus decoloratus (1903) With A. Theiler identified and described Theileria parva as causative agent of East Coast Fever (1904) Proposed dipping with sodium arsenite for control of ticks and locusts Described the hemipteran species Aspidoproctus maximus (1908) HONORS Lounsburyia Compere & Annecke 1961 (Hymenoptera) Lounsburyna Uvarov 1922 (Orthoptera) LINKS ww.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=1719
Charles Herbert Lankester
Charles Herbert Lankester, English-born Costa Rican naturalist (Southampton 14 June 1879 –San Jose de Costa Rica 08 July 1969) Collected new species of plants and animals from Costa Rica Described two orchids species Sobralia corazoi 1924 with Ames and Epidendrum tonduzii 1924 SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY Costa Rican butterflies (Lepid. Rhop.). Entomol. News 30(8):216, 1919 Orchids in Costa Rica. Orchid Rev. 28:129-32, 1920 Coffee. A report on coffee cultivating in Uganda with comparative notes on Costa Rica. Uganda Prot. Dept. Agric. Circ. 7:1-26, 1921 A short trip on Mt. Elgon, Uganda. Bull. Misc. Inform. 4:145-8, 1922 Lepidoptera from Costa Rica. Proc. Entomol. Soc. London A 1(3):56, 1927 With A.G.M. Gillott. Scent-tufts observed in the males of certain Costa Rican Lepidoptera. Proc. Entomol. Soc. London (A) 2(3):74-5, 1928 A novel use for a Tillandsia (1959) HONORS Lankesterella Ames 1923 (Orchidaceae)