Jotter & Work diaries
Ten small notebooks are present in the archives; these are work diaries of Nalepa. Four of them are not numbered, but on the hardcovers of all the others, numbers are indicated. The dates of the beginning of most diaries are given in the first page (#1 – 1895; #2, #3 – unknown; #4 – 14.II.1914; #5 – 5.X.1916; #6 – 22.I.1916; #7 – 25.III.1917; #8 – unknown; #9 – 9.IV.1920; #10 – 15.IV.1922). Measurements, draft images of prodorsal shields and short descriptions of eriophyoid mite species in pencil can be found in these diaries; for many species the numbers of corresponding vials are indicated.Along with the work diaries another important document was found in the Nalepa archives. It is a small jotter of 220 pages (each page is enumerated by hand) with black hardcover. Although the date “1911/12” is indicated in the hardcover, this document contains information about material from Java suggesting much later date of use. We assume that this jotter is possibly the very hand-written catalog mentioned by previous authors and which was thought to be lost. The texts in the jotter are written in pencil in an old-fashioned mode using “cursive writing” (stenography) with a lot of abbreviations, making it hard to understand. However, comparison with the two catalogs published by Nalepa (1911, 1929) revealed that the jotter might have been a draft for these publications as most descriptions from the jotter precisely fit to the texts from the two published catalogs. Many species descriptions (but far from all of them) include indication of the numbers of vials with corresponding material.
The jotter consists of four parts: pages 1‒58; 60‒137; 138‒196 and the last unnumbered 24 pages. In the first 58 pages the descriptions of new mite species from Java collected in 1914 are given, the host index is provided on pages 55‒58. Pages 60‒134 contain descriptions and records of European species of eriophyoids, host index for these species is given on pages 135‒137. On pages 138‒196 descriptions of new species from Java collected in 1921 as well as data on European species are given in a jumble; another host index for mites from Java is given on pages 179‒180. The last part of the jotter contains some unfinished tables and notes on the mites from Acer spp. with pencil drawings showing different forms of the modified trichomes of the erinea caused by eriophyoids on Acer pseudoplatanus and A. campestre; several pages are blank. Careful, future study of this jotter and the work diaries will be necessary to better understand the content of each vial from the collection.
Jotter (PDF, 67780 KB)
Diary 1 (PDF, 26788 KB)
Diary 2 (PDF, 7136 KB)
Diary 3 (PDF, 22272 KB)
Diary 4 (PDF, 23990 KB)
Diary 5 (PDF, 10491 KB)
Diary 6 (PDF, 10709 KB)
Diary 7 (PDF, 17332 KB)
Diary 8 (PDF, 13730 KB)
Diary 9 (PDF, 18980 KB)
Diary 10 (PDF, 24076 KB)
