Jan RAFALSKI - papers on Opiliones

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Jan RAFALSKI Birthdate: April 1st, 1909 Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia Nationality: Polish Died: March 13, 1995 BIOGRAPHY: Jan Rafalski was born in 1909, in St. Petersburg to a Polish family residing in Russia. After the Bolshevik revolution the family escaped to Poland, and resided initially in Warsaw then in Poznan, where his father Julian was a professor of forestry at the College of Agriculture, and founder of the Department of Forest Engineering. Jan Rafalski completed his university studies and Ph.D. at the University of Poznan, currently Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, where he worked all his life, eventually becoming Professor and head of the Department of Animal Morphology. His lifelong interest included Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari. He was a true naturalist, enjoying most his regular collecting trips. He worked until his eighties. He was most proud of the successes of his many students now in departments of biology all across Poland. His students remember well his beautiful blackboard drawings of various animals, executed in multicolored chalk during his general zoology lectures. He died in 1995. His former department is now headed by Prof. Czeslaw Blaszak. There is another photo of him on that page. Necrology: Prószynski, Jerzy, 1997. In memoriam Prof. Dr. Jan Rafalski (1909-1995). Proceedings of the 16th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Marek Zabka, editor. Siedlce 1997, Wydawnictwo Wyzszej Skoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej, Siedlce, pages viii-ix.
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Rafalski, Jan, 1949. Kosar (Opiliones) Pomorza. Cz. I. Spraw. poznansk Tow. Przyj. Nauk 1949 1 1950: 162-163.

Rafalski, Jan, 1953. Fauna pajeczakow Parku Narodowego na wyspie Wolinie w swietle dotychczasowych badan. Ochr. Przyr., 21, pp. 217-246, ff. 152-169. Krakow.

Rafalski, Jan, 1955 (1956). Opis Siro Carpaticus sp. nov. wraz z uwagami morfolgii i systematyce Cyphophthalmi (Opiliones). Sprawozd. Pozn. Tow. Prazyj. Nauk za I: II kwartal: 49-52.

Rafalski, Jan, 1958. A description of Siro carpaticus sp. n. with remarks on the morphology and systematics of the Cyphothalmi (Opiliones). Acta zool. Cracov. 2: 521-556, figs. 1-21.

Rafalski, Jan, 1958. Opis Siro carpaticus sp. n. wraz z uwagami o morfologii i systematyce Cyphophthalmi (Opiliones) Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia Tom. II Nr. 23 pp. 521-556.

Rafalski, Jan, 1960. Kosarze - Opiliones. Katalog Fauny Polski [Catalogus faunae Poloniae], 32(2): : 1-29, 1 map.

Rafalski, Jan, 1961. Prodromus faunae opilionum Poloninae. Pr. kom. biol. pozn. TPN, Poznan. 25: 325-372, 1 map.

Rafalski, Jan, 1962. Opilio dinaricus Šilhavý, malo znany gatunek kosarza (Opiliones). Opilio dinaricus Šilhavý a little known species of Harvestmen (Opiliones). Stud Soc. Sci. Torunensis Torun-Polonia. Sec. E. (Zool.) VOl. 6 Nr. 5: 1-12, [? 6(5): 121-132, figs. 1-7.] [In Polish, summary].

Rafalski, Jan, 1985. Leiobunum libatum L. Koch nowy dla fauny polsik gatunek kosarza (Opiliones) Przegląd zoologiczny, Wroclaw, 29(2): 171-174.

Rafalski, Jan, 1986. Kosarze (Opiliones) i Zaleszczzotki (Pseudoscorpionida). IN: Metody hodowli zwierzat glebowych.

Rafalski Jan & W. Staręga, 1997 - Opiliones - Kosarze. in Razowski J. Ed.: Checklist of Animals of Poland, 4. Krakow (ISIEZ PAN), pp. 260-261.

Rafalski, Jan & J. Urbanski, 1973. Wolin. Przyroda polska, Warszawa, 184 ss., rys., tbl.

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Picture of Jan Rafalski taken in 1965 in Poland, courtesy Antoni Rafalski, his son.
Biographical sketch also courtesy Antoni Rafalski.