Allan Octavian Hume starts the quarterly journal Stray Feathers in 1872 supported by
Ferdinand Stoliczka, who was an editor for the Journal of the Asiatic Society.
Richard Bowdler Sharpe's main work was in classifying and cataloguing the collections of the
British Museum but also played a major role in acquiring private collections by persuading wealthy collectors and travellers to contribute to the museum. In 1872 the museum had 35,000 bird specimens; the collection had grown to half a million by the time of his death.
Alphonse Milne-EdwardsResume des Recherches sur les Oiseaux Fossiles. C. R. vol. lxxiv. p. 1030, and Annales des Sciences Naturelles xvi. art. 2. [A resume of the principal discoveries made since 1856 in fossil birds, which the author' has embodied in his great work on this subject, now completed]. Translation as Investigations on Fossil Birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4. x. pp.
Walter BullerA History of the Birds of New Zealand. London: Van Voorst (completed 1873)
Otto Finsch "Zur Ornithologie der Samoa-Inseln". Journal für Ornithologie 1872
Carl Jakob Sundevall, 1872. Methodi naturalis avium disponendarum tentamen. Försök till fogelklassens naturenliga uppställning. Stockholm, Samson & Wallin
online BHL
Ongoing events
Theodor von HeuglinOrnithologie von Nordost-Afrika (Ornithology of Northeast Africa) (Cassel, 1869–1875)
John Gould The Birds of Asia 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers: H. C. Richter and W. Hart
Allan Octavian Hume starts the quarterly journal Stray Feathers in 1872 supported by
Ferdinand Stoliczka, who was an editor for the Journal of the Asiatic Society.
Richard Bowdler Sharpe's main work was in classifying and cataloguing the collections of the
British Museum but also played a major role in acquiring private collections by persuading wealthy collectors and travellers to contribute to the museum. In 1872 the museum had 35,000 bird specimens; the collection had grown to half a million by the time of his death.
Alphonse Milne-EdwardsResume des Recherches sur les Oiseaux Fossiles. C. R. vol. lxxiv. p. 1030, and Annales des Sciences Naturelles xvi. art. 2. [A resume of the principal discoveries made since 1856 in fossil birds, which the author' has embodied in his great work on this subject, now completed]. Translation as Investigations on Fossil Birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 4. x. pp.
Walter BullerA History of the Birds of New Zealand. London: Van Voorst (completed 1873)
Otto Finsch "Zur Ornithologie der Samoa-Inseln". Journal für Ornithologie 1872
Carl Jakob Sundevall, 1872. Methodi naturalis avium disponendarum tentamen. Försök till fogelklassens naturenliga uppställning. Stockholm, Samson & Wallin
online BHL
Ongoing events
Theodor von HeuglinOrnithologie von Nordost-Afrika (Ornithology of Northeast Africa) (Cassel, 1869–1875)
John Gould The Birds of Asia 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers: H. C. Richter and W. Hart