Taxacom: Barnes - collector of zoological & natural history specimens in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

[Dilrukshan Wijesinghe]

Thanks very much, Erikjan! The last one looks promising:

Lt. Henry Edwin Barnes (1848-1896) British Army, commissary in Aden, India and Afghanistan, oologist, collector (subsp. Oenanthe finschii).

Priyantha 

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> On Jan 14, 2024, at 10:39 PM, Erikjan Rijkers <er at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Op 1/15/24 om 03:40 schreef Dilrukshan Wijesinghe via Taxacom:
>> I am looking for any information about a collector named Barnes, presumably British, who collected zoological/entomological (perhaps natural history generally) specimens and presented or sold them to the Natural History Museum, London [=British Museum (Natural History)]. Unfortunately, I don't have anything more, even years active, but probably late 19th century or early 20th century.
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> Perhaps this helps: Cornell's birdsoftheworld has a nivce feature for searching names, namely James Jobling's database:
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> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirdsoftheworld.org%2Fbow%2Fkey-to-scientific-names%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DBarnes&data=05%7C02%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Cbb0394d2e1154f039ef108dc15908e09%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638408957821632481%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Zdl9PWeVk3TkaGcRUnN4LD5m09UiEes3R%2BF1QVRpgUU%3D&reserved=0
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> It turns up 4 Barnes, maybe yours is among them...
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> Erikjan
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>> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>> Priyantha
>> D. P. Wijesinghe
>> dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com
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