Valentin Lvovich Bianchi
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Valentin Lvovich Bianchi (1857–1920) was a Russia
n ornithologist
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Bianchi was the Head of the Department of Ornithology at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd from 1896 to 1920. He worked mainly on birds from Middle
and Central Asia
. He is honoured in the common and scientific names of Bianchi's Warbler
(Seicercus valentini), described by Ernst Hartert
.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n ornithologist
Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...
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Bianchi was the Head of the Department of Ornithology at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd from 1896 to 1920. He worked mainly on birds from Middle
Middle Asia
Middle Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west, to Mongolia in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north. The geographical term has appeared sometime prior to the 20th century in the Russian Empire and was closely associated with the Russian Turkestan and the...
and Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
. He is honoured in the common and scientific names of Bianchi's Warbler
Bianchi's Warbler
Bianchi's Warbler is a species of leaf warbler . It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.It is found in China, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam...
(Seicercus valentini), described by Ernst Hartert
Ernst Hartert
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert was a German ornithologist. Hartert was born in Hamburg. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of his private museum at Tring from 1892 to 1929....
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Works
- 1891 – The birds of GansuGansu' is a province located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.It lies between the Tibetan and Huangtu plateaus, and borders Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south, and Shaanxi to the east...
expedition of G.N. PotaninGrigory PotaninGrigory Nikolayaevich Potanin was a Russian explorer of Inner Asia who aligned himself with the Siberian separatist movement...
1884–1887 (with Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky) - 1905 – Scientific results of the N.M. PrzewalskiNikolai PrzhevalskyNikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky and Prjevalsky, ; —), was a Russian geographer of Polish background and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia. Although he never reached his final goal, Lhasa in Tibet, he travelled through regions unknown to the west, such as northern Tibet, modern Qinghai and...
expeditions to Central Asia - 1907 – Materials for an avifauna of Mongolia and East Tibet
- 1911–1913 – The fauna of Russia (first volume), (two semi-volumes)
- 1905 – Orthoptera and Pseudoneuroptera of the Russian Empire (with Georgij Georgiewitsch JacobsonGeorgij Georgiewitsch JacobsonGeorgij Georgiewitsch Jacobson was a Russian entomologist.Jacobson was the author of Beetles of Russia, Western Europe and neighbouring countries , and co-author, with Valentin Lvovich Bianchi, of Orthoptera and Pseudoneuroptera of the Russian Empire .-External links:...
) - 1909 – Instructions for collecting birds, their eggs and nests