| Activity | Tring correspondent. Henry C. Palmer, a sailor who could skin birds, was sent by Walter Rothschild to collect birds on the Chatham Islands of New Zealand in 1890, and then on the Hawaiian Islands from December 1890 to August 1893. Extracts from Palmer's diary are reproduced in Rothschild's 'Avifauna of Laysan'(1893-1900) but little is known of Palmer himself except that he was later murdered in the Australian goldfields.
Photograph collection of Hawaiian expedition held in Ornithology library. |