Collectors of mammalogical collections of the State Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine in the 1900–1930s

Ways and sources of formation of the mammalogical collection in the State Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine in the first few decades after the death of the museum’s founder Wlodzimierz Dzieduszycki have been analysed. Information about curators who played a significant role in formation of the collection of mammals during 1900–1939 has been summarized. Biographical information about Eufrozyn Sagan, Ostap Matsilynsky, Yuri Polansky, and Jan Grochmalicki is given as well. Some of these researchers, working mostly in other areas of science (paleobotany, geology, geography, archeology), simultaneously managed to accumulate significant museum materials on mammals of Ukraine and surrounding areas. Most of the curators were among the workers and stock managers of the Natural History Museum of Shevchenko Scientific Society. In January 1940, their collections within the stocks of the Natural History Museum of Shevchenko Scientific Society were transferred to the State Museum of Natural History.

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