An Adelaide-born pharmacist, Oswald B. Lower, is a neglected figure in the pantheon of early Australian amateur entomologists. Specialising in Lepidoptera, he worked mainly around Adelaide and Broken Hill where he discovered hundreds of new species, especially in the semi-arid zone of southern Australia. Lower named almost 1000 valid new species between 1892 and 1923 based upon his own material and specimens sourced from contacts in other parts of Australia. His legacy of 40 000 specimens, assembled between the 1880s and early 1920s, forms the nucleus of the outstanding Lepidoptera collection at the South Australian Museum. Many are sourced from locations now lost or degraded and the collection will be an invaluable tool in the emerging challenge of habitat restoration in Australia.

出生于阿德莱德的药剂师奥斯瓦尔德·B·洛尔 (Oswald B. Lower) 在澳大利亚早期业余昆虫学家的万神殿中是一个被忽视的人物。他专门研究鳞翅目，主要在阿德莱德和布罗肯希尔附近工作，在那里他发现了数百个新物种，特别是在澳大利亚南部的半干旱地区。Lower 根据他自己的材料和从澳大利亚其他地区接触到的标本，在 1892 年至 1923 年间命名了近 1000 个有效的新物种。他在 1880 年代至 1920 年代初收集了 40,000 个标本，构成了南澳大利亚博物馆杰出鳞翅目收藏的核心。其中许多来自现已消失或退化的地点，这些藏品将成为应对澳大利亚栖息地恢复这一新挑战的宝贵工具。