Carl Gustav Calwer
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Carl Gustav Calwer was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

He wrote initially with the Stuttgart professor Dr Gustav Jäger
Gustav Jäger
Gustav Jäger was a German naturalist and hygienist.He was born at the historic Pfarrhaus of the village of Bürg, Neuenstadt am Kocher, in Württemberg. After studying medicine at Tübingen he became a teacher of zoology at Vienna...

 Käferbuch, Naturgeschichte der Käfer Europas published by Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart a 666 page work with 50 lithographic
Lithography
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plates all but two in colour. This very popular work was successively reprinted until 1916.

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