Peter Bernhardt
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Peter Bernhardt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you remember when Dolly Parton sang Love is like a butterfly, soft and gentle as a sigh?
Australian editor and journalist Walter Marsh changes that lyric in his latest book.
The Butterfly Thief, Adventure, Fraud, Scotland Yard, and Australia's greatest museum heist.
For the author
Love is like a pinned and mislabeled butterfly.
Obsessive.
deceptive and criminal.
For over 300 pages of text, followed by 33 pages of footnotes, Marsh shows how one man made off with more than sixteen hundred specimens from cabinets in the Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide museums.
The thief took what he fancied from these institutions over six years, but his thefts weren't discovered until nineteen forty-seven, and he had refined tastes.
The man took only the rarest of the rare, including what was then known as the flame hairstreak.
Setalmanus chlorinda subspecies barringtoniensis.
an insect restricted to a few sites in the mountains of northeastern New South Wales.
Now.
When a museum loses its rarest, that may also mean it has lost one or more of its type specimens.
For the uninitiated, scientists must collect and preserve one or more organisms to describe and publish a new species or subspecies.
The specimen listed and numbered in the publication becomes the type specimen that feels
Future scientists need to examine whenever they plan to question, revise and or classify its status as a species and membership in a lineage.
There are at least eight categories of type specimens including isotypes, paratypes, lectotypes, syntypes, neotypes, and allotypes, but the most precious is the holotype.
Because that is the single specimen designated for primary reference in the original publication.
This also means that the label on the specimen proves its authenticity as a type.
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