Museum in Kaliningrad [Koenigsberg]

[Alexey Solodovnikov]

Dear colleagues,

Does anybody know any colleague from Zoological museum in
Kaliningrad [former Koenigsberg] in Russia? If this establishment
now is called otherwise (say, Museum of Natural History or so, this does not
matter).

After long search for the types of a couple of Lathrobium species
(Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) described by G. Czwalina at
the end of XIXth century I got an evidence that they
may be in "Zoological museum in  Königsberg", in Russia! It may
look as a shame, but, being in rather neighboring St. Petersburg, I have
no idea about such museum and people who might work there.

World discussion groups look sometimes very powerful so first I am
addressing my querry here. I really hope that probably colleagues
from Baltic states may help. I would be thankful for any contact data
which would allow me to get in touch to this institution.

Sincerely,
Alexey.

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Alexey Solodovnikov
Laboratory of Insect Taxonomy
Zoological Institute Rus. Acad. Sci.
Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg
199034 RUSSIA
phone: +7 812 328 12 12
fax:   +7 812 114 04 44
e-mail: asolodovnikov at mail.ru
http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/solodovn.htm
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