Jiří Baum [SEP] place of death
Jiří Baum
Jiří Baum (20 September 1900 – 1944, Warsaw) was a Czech zoologist, museum curator, explorer and writer. He served as the director of the zoological department of the National Museum in Prague and is best known in his field for his 1933 book "Through the African Wilderness" and his 1935 zoological expedition in the Australian outback. In Australia, Baum teamed with Walter Drowley Filmer due to his local expertise with spiders.
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- Photo of Jiri Baum
the discovery of a new family: ‘’Cestoda genera’’, that became known as "Filmeric". He had an extensive collection of insects, comprising several thousand samples, and perhaps one of the leading private collections at the time. Filmer developed a keen interest in field work that involved spiders and teamed with Dr. Jiří Baum of the Prague Museum, the Czech zoologist and a leading world authority on spiders. Filmer performed research with Dr. Robin Tillyard on fossil insects. He also teamed with John Mitchell, of Newcastle