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SIGMUND (ZIGA) ZOIS
BIRDS IN SLOVENIAN
Zois’s ornithological endeavours are less
known and less well researched. In Nomen-
clatura Carniolica, Zois recorded for the first
time the Slovenian names of the vast majority
of birds then known to science in Carniola.
COMMON NIGHTINGALE. Second half of
19 th Century.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Nebojša Tejić, STA
.
COMMON STARLING. Second half of 19th
Century.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Nebojša Tejić, STA
.
A COMPLETELY NEW MINERAL
Zoisite from the Prickler Halt site at
Saualpe in Austria. In 1804 the mineral trad-
er Simon Prešeren procured for Zois materials
from Saualpe in Carinthia and Zois recognised
a new, hitherto unknown mineral, which
was later also confirmed by foreign experts.
In honour of Zois, the German mineralogist
Abraham Gottlob Werner, who devised a sys-
COMMON QUAIL. Second half of 19 th Cen-
tury.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Nebojša Tejić, STA
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.
tem for classifying minerals, named it zoisite.
Slovenian Museum of Natural History. Photo: Sanja Živković.