Just a note that the Spring 2012 Issue of The News of the Lepidopterists Society had a delayed tribute to Dr. John C. Downey, who transitioned in 2005.  It points out his role as a central character in the Nabokov saga.  Downey was one of the pioneer scientists of Blues and had some fascinating contacts/ run-in's with Nabokov that have been recorded in both Boyd and Pyle and Johnson and Coates.  The tribute points out that Downey was a major professor and influence on both Kurt Johnson and Naomi Pierce who went on not only to be major systematists of the Lycaenidae (and Blues in particular) but also turned out to further explore, unravel and chronicle the Nabokov lepidoptery saga.  This was capped of course with the co-authored paper of 11 persons working with Naomi Pierce that used DNA analysis to confirm Nabokov's biogeographic hypotheses (published in 2011).  Many of these persons are participating in the current ongoing work by Steve Blackwell and Kurt Johnson for another major volume on Nabokov's science and art.

So, I wanted people to know about the tribute article to John C. Downey.

Dr. Kurt Johnson



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