Speaker: Cathrine Harboe-Ree “A field naturalist in Siberia”
Drawing on a biography she is translating, club member Cathrine Harboe-Ree will talk about the extraordinary efforts the Norwegian field naturalist and polar explorer Johan Koren made to study fauna in north-eastern Siberia in the years 1909-1919. Koren survived shipwrecks and other maritime disasters, winters as cold as minus 65 Celsius, frostbite and isolation. He collected for museums, research institutions and private collectors. The main institutional recipients were Harvard University and the Smithsonian. Koren had a special interest in birds and is credited with finding the previously unknown breeding grounds of a number of migratory birds. He also discovered several new mammal species, some of which were named after him.
Observations: We would all love to hear about your recent interesting observations at the meeting. Contributions from both members and visitors are welcome. Please email any photos to illustrate your report as uncropped JPEG file(s) to Jill Williams (jilliwill33@gmail.com) by noon on the day of the meeting.