John Stanislaw Kubary
John Stanislaw Kubary, also stated as Jan Stanisław Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist and ethnographer.
In 1868 he became a collector for Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg.
Kubary discovered at least four bird species: the Samoan wood rail, the Mariana crow, the Caroline Islands ground dove, and the Pohnpei fantail, as well as numerous insects, among them the paradise birdwing butterfly. The peak Mount Kubari on New Guinea is named after him.Works
Partial list:
- with Alfred Tetens and Eduard Gräffe The Carolines island of Yap or Guap according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary "Die Carolineninsel Yap oder Guap nach den Mittheilungen von Alf. Tetens und Johann Kubary" Microform Reprint New Haven, Conn.
- Die Palau-Inseln in der Suedsee: Das Palau Geld, 49–53. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, I, 4. Hamburg
- Weitere Nachrichten von der Insel Ponape Journal des Museum Godeffroy Heft VII. Hamburg, L. Friedrichsen & Co. pp. 129-135
- Ethnographische Beitraege zur Kenntnis des Karolinen Archipels, Heft 1: Ueber das Einheimische Geld auf der Insel Yap und auf den Palau-Inseln Leiden
