Abstract
Memories of Cas Jeekel, friend, colleague, and role model
Highlights
Up to that point in time, much of the published work on Diplopoda consisted of opportunistic descriptions of new taxa with scant attention to any form of synthesis
My conversion to a different approach was catalyzed by his two 1951 papers about Tectoporus and Sphaeropoeus which showed that useful progress could be made by combining descriptions of new taxa with analysis of relevant published information
During that first visit the initiative for the Nomenclator was developed, and that mythical estimate of 80 000 extant species was contrived. At the time he held a position in the Zoological Museum and was librarian for the Dutch Entomological Society
Summary
Up to that point in time, much of the published work on Diplopoda consisted of opportunistic descriptions of new taxa with scant attention to any form of synthesis. Memories of Cas Jeekel, friend, colleague, and role model
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