That the species was seen in the wild in Thailand, with a match to the specimens confirmed using DNA sequencing
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Allan Hume
Allan Octavian Hume was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British India and was the founding spirit and key founder of the Indian National Congress. He was a proponent of Indian self-rule and strongly supported the idea of Indian independence. He supported the idea of self-governance by Indians. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the…
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science · British politician and civil servant (1829–1912) · botanist · ornithologist · civil servant · politician · physician · also Allan Hume, Allan Octavian Hume, Hume, A.O. Hume
Born 4 June 1829 · Died 31 July 1912 · Q455438
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2006· 1 entry
1983· 1 entry
Published (anonymously but thought to be written by T
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1973· 1 entry
And a special cover depicting Rothney Castle, his home in Shimla, was released in 2013
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1912· 1 entry
Died 1912-07-31.
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1910· 1 entry
Hume bought the premises of 323 Norwood Road, and modified it to have a herbarium and library
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1905· 1 entry
Had left instructions that his herbarium and collection was to be given to the institute, which was then only being contemplated
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1901· 1 entry
To help develop a herbarium of botanical specimens
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1894· 2 entries
To live in London from where he continued to take an interest in the Indian National Congress
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And settled at The Chalet, 4 Kingswood Road, Upper Norwood in south London
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1892· 1 entry
Tried to get the members to act, warning of a violent agrarian revolution but this only outraged the British establishment and frightened the Congress leaders
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1891· 1 entry
An official publication on the contributions of Dr
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1890· 1 entry
Also became president of the Dulwich Liberal and Radical Association
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1889· 1 entry
Which was edited by Eugene William Oates
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1888· 1 entry
Included a character derisively called "A
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1887· 1 entry
Writing to the Public Commission of India, he made what was then a statement unexpected from a civil servant — I look upon myself as a Native of India
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1886· 1 entry
Published a pamphlet The Old Man's Hope in which he examined poverty in India, questioning charity as a solution for the problem
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1885· 3 entries
Consisted of 82,000 specimens of which 75,577 (258 being type specimens) were finally placed in the museum
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To the first session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay
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After the destruction of nearly 20,000 specimens, that alarm bells were raised by Dr
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1883· 2 entries
Wrote an open letter to the graduates of Calcutta University, having been a fellow of the University of Calcutta from 1870, calling upon them to form their own national political movement
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Hume returned from a trip to find that many pages of the manuscripts that he had maintained over the years had been stolen and sold off as waste paper by a servant
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1881· 1 entry
Made his last ornithological expedition to Manipur, a visit in which he collected and described the Manipur bush quail (Perdicula manipurensis), a bird that has remained obscure with few reliable reports since
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1879· 2 entries
Returned to provincial government at Allahabad
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Hume went against the authorities
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1875· 3 entries
Made an expedition to the Laccadive Islands aboard the marine survey vessel IGS Clyde under the command of Staff-Commander Ellis and accompanied by surgeon-naturalist James Armstrong of the Marine Survey
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Were studied by George King and later by David Prain
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Noted that Friedrich Wilhelm Meves had confirmed through chemical analysis that the brown coloration of lammergeiers was due to an external deposition of iron-oxide
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1872· 2 entries
Hume lost patronage and support for his work
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A detailed article on the osteology of birds in relation to their classification written by Richard Lydekker who was then in the Geological Survey of India
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1871· 2 entries
To the Department of Revenue and Agriculture
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To the position of secretary to the Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce under Lord Mayo who was assassinated a year later
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1870· 1 entry
Mainly being a list of errors in the list of Godwin-Austen which had been reduced to an abstract
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1869· 1 entry
But the name that he used, magnirostris, was found to be preoccupied and replaced by the name orinus provided by Harry Oberholser in 1905
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1867· 1 entry
Hume became Commissioner of Customs for the North West Province, and in 1870 he became attached to the central government as Director-General of Agriculture
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1863· 1 entry
Moved for separate schools for juvenile delinquents rather than flogging and imprisonment which he saw as producing hardened criminals
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1861· 1 entry
Objected to the concentration of police and judicial functions in the hands of police superintendents
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1859· 1 entry
That education played a key role in avoiding revolts like the one in 1857:
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1853· 1 entry
Clashed with his higher up, magistrate Mark B
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1849· 1 entry
And on reaching Calcutta, he stayed with his cousin James Hume, The following year, he joined the Bengal Civil Service at Etawah in the North-Western Provinces, in what is now Uttar Pradesh
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1829· 1 entry
Born 1829-06-04.
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