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Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse

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He continued his research with his involvement with Transvaal Museum, and made three extensive collecting trips by car and trailer, despite being over 75. His wife accompanied him as his assistant. He continued his research until a year before his death when he suffered from a serious illness.
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Initially, he worked under primitive conditions, collecting on foot or by donkey cart. He was widely respected as an authority on South African moths and was a botanist, collecting alongside Reino Leendertz. In 1921-1922, he visited Europe and worked in museums in
189:(1932-1964), which is a definitive text. In 1945, the government of South Africa purchased his collection, equipment and library and placed it in the care of the Transvaal Museum, where he himself was appointed Honorary Curator of 193:. Due to lack of space, his collection remained at his house, where his laboratory was. The museum's collection of Heterocera moved there instead, thus merging the two collections. 154:, comparing and identifying many hundreds of specimens he collected. In acknowledgement of his work, he was presented in London with the Joicey collection of 360: 210: 185:. He collected in excess of 100,000 specimens which were added to the museum's collection and further completed his multi-volume work entitled 355: 118:, Netherlands in 1877 to Antonie Johannes Janse and his wife Willemina Broekhuisen. He migrated to South Africa in 1889 and taught as a 365: 228:. He discovered over five hundred new species and prepared detailed drawings of the external structure and genitalia of both sexes. 206: 218: 205:
where he was awarded the Senior Captain Scott Medal in 1922 and was elected five times president. He was a founder of the
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and by other orthographic variations (19 April 1877 – 12 June 1970), was a pioneer of South African
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Many species of moth are named after him as well as one plant,
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The South African Association for the Advancement of Science
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awarded him an honoris causa degree as Doctor of Science.
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Janse published over forty papers and eight volumes of
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for many years and was made an honorary professor in
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Pretoria
Entomology
entomology
Lepidoptera
the Hague
missionary
Nuwe Smitsdorp
Pinetown
Second Boer War
Normal College
London
Leiden
Berlin
Pyralidae
Pretoria University College
Systematic Entomology
University of South Africa
Transvaal Museum
Heterocera
South African Biological society
Entomological Association of South Africa
The South African Association for the Advancement of Science
Royal Entomological Society
Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging
Delosperma jansei
"S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science"
"Obituary- Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse"
"Janse, Anthonie Johannes Theodorus (1877-1970)"
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1877 births

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