A bound volume of pamphlets by the South Australian botanist, entomologist, and natural history collector, J.G.O. Tepper
Adelaide, [mainly] The Philosophical Society of Adelaide (called the Royal Society of South Australia from 1880), 1878 to 1881.
Octavo, 12 pamphlets, pagination varies; plates appear in some of them.
Contemporary binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; in excellent condition.
The papers are mainly on insects and native plants, but also 'Cliffs and Rocks at Ardrossan', the 'Bay of Biscay' soil of SA, and butterflies (with two lithographs, one with some hand-colouring). Loosely inserted is a related paper translated by him, and three leaflets (one each on ants, bees, and insects) by him (quarto or larger, printed rectos only). Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper (1841-1923) arrived in SA in 1847. He trained as a school teacher, and 'taught at Two Wells (1869), Monarto (1872-73), Nuriootpa (1873-78), Ardrossan (1878-81) and Clarendon (1881-83). Between 1873 and 1883 he wrote a series of natural history papers about Nuriootpa, "Notable Native Plants about Ardrossan"', and numerous others, such as those present here. 'In March 1883 Tepper was appointed natural history collector at the South Australian Museum; in 1888 he was promoted to entomologist, numismatist and librarian there. Many of his entomological papers were later to appear in the Garden and Field and in the Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, which society he joined in 1878; he was an honorary fellow from 1912, and was sometime chairman of its field naturalists' section. In 1879 he became a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a life member of the Society of Science Letters and Art (London), receiving their medal in 1898' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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