Peter Bernhardt
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140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
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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I'll come back to this soon, but now we must ask ourselves.
What type of person would steal types?
Based on the author's in-depth descriptions, I think you might have liked Colin Wyatt if you met him.
Almost everyone else did.
Unlike Norman Lindsay's gross pudding thief, young Colin was an athletic young Englishman, a competitive skier, mountain climber, folk musician, author, and landscape artist.
His extramural jobs as a painter, though, ran in two directions.
During the Second World War, he helped produce decoys as part of the Sydney camouflage group.
Conversely, his talents with the fine brush and pigments let him substitute tarted-up common butterflies for at least two rare type specimens in Australian New Zealand.
museums fooling curators for years.
In fact, Wyatt was respected as a serious lepidopterist prior to his six years in Australia.
He specialized in mountain species native to Europe, but that included an earlier attempt at kleptomania in 1930.
As young Collin returned the specimens to the museum in England, the theft was hushed up.
That explains why he was welcomed by the Old Boys network of Australian collectors, including its most prominent contributor and supporter, Athol Waterhouse.
It's ironic that Waterhouse, who donated his collection to the Sydney Museum decades earlier, spent his final years trying to identify returned stolen butterflies because Wyatt deliberately removed and destroyed the original labels.
All specimens Wyatt took home to England and since returned to Oz now bear a yellow label warning any scientist that they pass through Colin Wyatt's private cabinets.
Attempts to reestablish the validity of specimens continue to this day.
Walter Marsh wants us to understand the full context of a true crime and punishment story.
We must learn about the history of insect collections in Australia and the checkered past of the museums that still keep them.
it surprised me to learn that the first butterfly collectors in Australia were none other than the botanists, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, netting specimens under Captain Cook's protection.
Perhaps these men caught those insects visiting the plants they were about to pick and press.
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