[NHCOLL-L:4741] RE: Label H.K.Coale

[Nutter, Pat]

According to our registration files, Henry K. Coale appears to have been an actively contributing bird specimens to the USNM collections from about 1880s to 1920s.  His address is variously listed as Chicago or Highland Park, Illinois.   The address listed seems to be a personal address, not the address of any sort of company.

Patricia Nutter
Associate Registrar, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution


From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of BESSON Ludovic
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 6:09 AM
To: NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:4740] Label H.K.Coale

Dear all,

I have some birds with a label from "Collection H. K. Coale - Chicago" . Who is this man, an ornithologist or a merchant? What are his date of birth and dead?

For example, I have a specimen "¡á/N¡ã9266 - Parus rufescens neglectus (R)/Loc. Santa Cruz Cal. sept. 4-1896". What is this number 9266 ? Is it seems this specimen was publisched or is it just a field number ?

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What is this hand writing ¡°G. F(?) B.¡±. I have just this information from Sharpe (1906)

SHARPE, R. B. (1906) ¨C The History of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum- Birds.
¡°60 birds from Arizona and other parts of North America, Presented. [87. 1. 24, 1-60.]. An active American naturalist, from whom the Museum received several interesting species. Many of his skins are in the Sclater Collection.¡±


Thank you for your help

Best regards


Ludovic Besson

Responsable des collections

Mus¨¦um Gabriel Foucher

Les Rives d'Auron - All¨¦e M¨¦nard

18000 Bourges (France)

T¨¦l.: 02 48 65 37 34
http://www.museum-bourges.net/

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