John et al.,

The text data and portraits from "Horn & Kahle" are online in a searchable database http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/index.php

It's updated continuously and is a fantastic resource.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, the handwriting samples are not part of it, presumably because it would be extremely labor intensive to segment them out of the original irregularly arranged multi-sample photographic plates in order to link the images with individual entries.

If you go to the search page given above, the heading "imprint" at the top of the page has information about the history, etc. of the data and database. The settings button beside imprint lets you choose Deutsch, English, or Français for the interface (among other things).

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 5:55 PM John Heraty <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear all,

In my vague memory cells, I seem to remember a book by Horn [?] on nomenclature that had samples of handwriting from long gone entomologists (I think). Alas, Horn is not a very descriptive name and I can’t remember the title of the book. I am looking for a sample for a friend of Eichhoff’s handwriting, which might be in there, but I would also love to have someone remind me of the book.

Help?

John