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Ragnar Edberg takes a pause for thought from the editorial work for IK, standing on Jesus College Green, Cambridge.

TITLE: Obituary Mr Ragnar Edberg - naturalist, humanist and taxidermist DATE: September 2008 Obituary Ragnar Edberg 15 May 1931 - 21 July 2008 Ragnar Edberg was one of IK Foundation's oldest collaborators, having participated for almost twenty years in exhibition and publishing projects. His expertise in natural history was both unique and classic, being based on literary as well as on practical knowledge. His literary knowledge was founded on the reading of the publications of several centuries in the field of natural history - often to be found in his personal library - and on active involvement in field studies and research. As an ornithologist Ragnar received his training from, among others, "the father of Swedish field ornithology," Erik Rosenberg, and as a naturalist and future taxidermist from the last Swedish field taxidermist, Tore Hanson. A combination of individuals that, together with his own deep but modest curiosity, from the 1940s onward, was to inspire him throughout his life to try and understand the complexities of nature. His understanding and knowledge of matters concerned with natural history made Ragnar into a public and educational personality through innumerable TV and radio programmes, but it was perhaps primarily through the articles and books he wrote that his sagacity has been of the utmost value to both experts and the general public - with whom he willingly shared his knowledge.