René Oberthür Collection of Buprestidae in the Paris Museum
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France [miscellaneous images]

The collection of René Oberthür comprises a major portion of the holdings of the Paris Museum, certainly in the Coleoptera Section. Below a list of the 196 boxes
of the Buprestidae collection are detailed according to the taxa in each box, either as noted on the spine of the box or from my examination of the photos. Some
of the genus-group names have changed since the collection moved to the museum and I've changed some of the names below, but not all.

It is important to note that within this collection, as kept separate in locking steel cabinets in the Buprestidae room, are found most or all of the collections of many
of the early French specialists, either general coleopterists or specialists in Buprestidae, including but not limited to Henri Deyrolle, Leon Fairmaire, Hippolyte Gory,
Francois Laporte, and James Thomson. This collection is separate from the General Collection, the Maurice Pic collection and the Andre Théry collection as well
as a number of boxes still sorted mostly only by major geographic regions.

The types, in spreadsheet format, from the four main collections of Buprestidae in the Paris Museum can be found here.

These photos of the Oberthür collection were taken by Edo Jendek and are presented here to help those who may never have the opportunity to visi the Paris Museum,
although as you can see by the rather confined condition in many of the boxes, and the relative low resolution of these images, not much can be resolved only with
these pictures, but we should all be grateful to Edo for making them available. As a further note, I have optimized these images for typical web resolution and saved
approximately 95% of each file size. If anyone would like to have the higher resolution files, please contact Edo Jendek or myself and we can make those available.

René Oberthür on Wikipedia