Harvesting Indian Butterfly Images for Wikimedia Commmons
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Ashwin Baindur
Oct 28, 2011, 11:17:39 AM10/28/11
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Frederic Moore FZS (May 13, 1830–May 10, 1907) was a British entomologist and assistant curator in the East India Company Museum, London. He continued until the museum was disbanded in 1879. He began compiling Lepidoptera indica (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 12 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. The plates were produced by his son, while some others were produced by John Nugent Fitch. The links for scanned volumes for Lepidoptera Indica can be found on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Moore
Shyamal has completed the image harvesting of Lepidoptera Indica volumes 1 to 10 for Wikimedia Commons (over 2000 images). Find the images here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lepidoptera_Indica
A truly humungous task which has great relevance to Indian butterfly articles.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Papilio mayo
Attribution (give credit to author/photographer/creator), Share-alike (Works using these images must allow the same freedoms given to you i.e. commercial use permitted, distribution permitted, derivatives permitted).
Frederic Moore FZS (May 13, 1830–May 10, 1907) was a British entomologist and assistant curator in the East India Company Museum, London. He continued until the museum was disbanded in 1879. He began compiling Lepidoptera indica (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 12 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. The plates were produced by his son, while some others were produced by John Nugent Fitch. The links for scanned volumes for Lepidoptera Indica can be found on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Moore
Shyamal has completed the image harvesting of Lepidoptera Indica volumes 1 to 10 for Wikimedia Commons (over 2000 images). Find the images here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lepidoptera_Indica
A truly humungous task which has great relevance to Indian butterfly articles.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Papilio mayo
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