Moisés Santiago Bertoni, Swiss-born Paraguayan naturalist (Lottigna, Ticino Canton 15 June 1857 – Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná State, Brazil 19 September 1929) His original name was Mosé Giacomo Bertoni Authored works on agronomy, botany, zoology, meteorology, ethnography and language of Guarani people (nearly 540 publications)
ACHIEVEMENTS Agriculture
Developed new agricultural methods Nuevo metodo para el cultivo del banana: práctica del “rozado sin quemar” (1911) Plant Pathology Una nueva enfermedad del cafeto. Rev. Agric. Cien. Apl. Paraguay 1(4-5):211-73, 1898 La gomosis de los citrus y un nuevo medio preventivo y curativo. An. Cient. Paraguayos (1919) Meteorology Invented a drosometer and a phyto-thermometer (1905) Chemistry Classified Stevia rebaudiana (1905), source of a sweet flavor glycoside stevioside La Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. La estevina y la rebaudina. Nuevas substancias edulcorantes. An. Cient. Paraguayos 2(6):29-134, 1918 Botany DESCRIBED VALID PLANTAE TAXA Ananas strictus 1913 Jussiaea leveillana 1910 Pavonia restiaria 1911 Rollinia viridis 1913 Stevia rebaudiana 1899 Vanilla bertoniensis 1910 Vigna asparaginea 1913 Vigna brasilica 1913 Vigna inga 1913 Vigna oryzina 1913 Vigna serotina 1913 Vigna sulphurea 1913 Vigna tonkinensis 1913 His son, Arnoldo da Winkelried Bertoni, Paraguayan zoologist (Swiss 28 December 1878 – Asunción 1973) Enunciated laws about pre-historic and fossil deposits Leyes sobre yacimientos prehistoricos y fosiles. Rev. Soc. Cient. Paraguay 2(6):265, 1930 DESCRIBED AVES Family Genera Campylorhamphus 1901 Myiornis 1901 Species/Subespecies Drymophila rubricollis 1901 Pulsathrix koeniswaldiana 1901 (with his father) Zenaida auriculata virgata 1901 Strix virgata borelliana 1901 Buteo magnirostris magniplumis 1901 Phaethornis eurynome paraguayensis 1901 (with his father) Penelope superciliaris major 1901 Euphonia violacea aurantiicollis 1901 Chamaeza campanisona tshororo 1901 Asio stygius barberoi 1930 HYMENOPTERA Genera Zeteumenes 1921 Amphimenes 1923 Protozethus 1925 Alphamenes 1934 Beteumenes 1934 Paramortonia 1934 Species Described nearly 50 new species from Paraguay With Schouten described a fungi species Fusarium riarti (1934) HONORS Bertoniella Rehn 1911 (Orthoptera)
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