User talk:Shyamal

Contents

1 Owls 2 Timeline of ornithology 3 Richard Meinertzhagen and murders? 4 Allan Wilson 5 Francis Hamilton-Buchanan and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton 6 Charles Swinhoe 7 Thanks ! 8 Charles Swinhoe obituaries 9 Article Licensing

Owls

Hi, thanks for the Indian Scops Owl note. I knew something was wrong, wasn't sure what. I knew I'd seen Collared, but wasn't sure of synonym. jimfbleak 11:30, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

Timeline of ornithology

Hi, thanks for the note on the Timeline of ornithology page. If you think something should be added to the page please go right ahead and do it. I pretty much made it up from scratch, there are probably lots of things that need to be added. The trouble with it at the moment is that it's biased towards British and European events. It needs more input from people other than myself. All the best. Smallweed 18:57, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, will try to add on to the Timeline. Shyamal 06:04, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Richard Meinertzhagen and murders?

Re your request to Smallweed -- << I would be interested if you find references that suggest that he was (to put it mildly) 'responsible for the death' of ornithologists C.B.Ticehurst and Hugh Whistler. Shyamal 06:05, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC) >> -- I've heard these allegations elsewhere, as thirdhand gossip, and am interested in tracing any sources for them. Please cc any replies to valfierno@aol.com. Thanks -- Ed Valfierno.

Will do. Shyamal 05:41, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm currently reading Cocker's book on Meinertzhagen, which makes no reference to this, and Salim Ali's Fall of a Sparrow, which says Whistler died at his home in Battle, Sussex of cancer in 1943. I'm not sure how Meinertzhagen can be blamed for that. Smallweed 08:53, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I have taken off the line from the page. <<According to one biographer, young Meinertzhagen was a murderer as well as a fraud. Mark Cocker, author of Richard Meinertzhagen: Soldier, Scientist and Spy, writes that he once struck a servant with a mallet, killing the man. The superientendant of police, a friend of the family, hushed up the case, sealed off the man's living quarters, and then officially declared him dead of the plague. >> http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/drought0611.html Shyamal 12:59, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

<<Access to papers is subject to the permission of the Meinertzhagen family trustees until 18th June 2037. Diary entries of a personal nature have been removed and are closed until 18th June 2037>> http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0305mein.html Shyamal 12:13, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Allan Wilson

Hello!

I hate to be a killjoy, but articles with nothing in them except for an external link are speedy deletion candidates. Thanks for understanding. - Lucky 6.9 06:30, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, i have now added a stub and some content. Unfortunately it was added by following a blank link from someother page. Shyamal 04:58, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Francis Hamilton-Buchanan and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

Now we have both! Lupo 09:50, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Charles Swinhoe

Yes, he was Robert Swinhoe's brother.

He was at Kandahar with Lord Roberts in 1880, and collected 341 birds there and on the march back to India. He contributed papers to The Ibis on the birds of southern Afghanistan and central India, and donated 300 bird skins from each country to the British Museum. He had one of the largest collections of Indian lepidoptera at the time (per Mearns and Mearns). His obit. was in The Ibis 1924 pp. 362-3. Smallweed 19:21, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hello ! If you are interested, I know a list about 10 obituaries on C. Swinhoe. These obituaries published in several entomological publications. If you want, I can you send this list. (Sorry for my very very bad english).--Valérie75 19:34, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks !

Thanks for your king message on my my talk page. I see, we work about the same subjects (history of biology) on wiki. You can find a lot of images about biologists on Commons. I create on commons several categories like entomologists ou ornithologists, and a lot of others.--Valérie75 19:40, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Charles Swinhoe obituaries

Hello,

Thanks for your message on my french talk page. Here the list of obituaries about Ch. Swinhoe :

• Am. J. Sci. (1924), (5) 7 : 250.
• Entomologist's mon. Mag. (1924) 60 : 19-20.
• J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. (1924), 29 : 1042.
• B.D.J., Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1924), 1923-24 : 58-59.
• Riley N.D., Entomologist (1924), 57 : 23-24.
• Walker J.J., Natture (1924), 113 : 21.
• Musgrave A., Bibliography of Australian entomology 1775-1930, Sydney : 307-308.

Best regards.--Valérie75 08:04, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)