Museum Madness and How collecting specimens can be hazardous to your health

Wagler, Johann Georg 1800-1832

Munich, Director of Zoological Museum Univ. Munich

Died from accidental self inflicted wound from shotgun, while collecting.

(doesn’t say what, though it could have been the variegated mountain cricket, a tough critter)

There are more but too many at once will do things to your internal organs so you have to take just a few at a time

Here is another taste.

Wahlberg, Johan August 1810-1856

Died: 6 Mar 1856 (killed by an elephant)

Petr