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Ref NoDF/TR/1/1/25/230
Alt Ref NoTR1/1/25/230
TitleHume, [Allan] [Octavian]
Description1 letter to Ernst Hartert from A O Hume, 4 Kingswood Road, Upper Norwood, London, England, United Kingdom

Discusses the death of Col. Tythers, suspected to be from arsenic poisoning due to unskilled preparation of his bird skin collection.

It is discussed in a paper by Robert Prys-Jones, Alison Harding and Kathryn Rooke, in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 141(2):240-244 (2021)

[Was previously reference number TM/1/79]
Date1 Oct 1904
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
Extent1 item
LevelFile

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CodePersonNameDates
PX3633Hume; Allan Octavian (1829-1912); Ornithologist1829-1912
PX2123Hartert; Ernst Johann Otto (1859-1933); Tring Museum curator. Ornithologist and zoologist1859-1933
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