Additional TKK (Toyo Kisen Kaisha) related items that I have been obtaining are these postcards which were apparently a series all depicting Japanese cultural related images.
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In Jun 1889, Mathias Petersson Kronsjö, lighthouse keeper on Hanö island near Sölvesborg, Sweden, returned a survey to Prof. F.A. Smitt at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, recording "Bird species, observed at Hanö lighthouse during the Spring migration of 1889."
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This May 1926 registered cover, from the Royal Hungarian Institute of #Ornithology, is addressed to British historian Ivan Donald Margary (1897-1976). It was sent after the Jan 1926 publication of his paper "The Marsham phenological record in Norfolk, 1736–1925, and some others". /1
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I've shared this 1903 Oliver Spanner & Co. corner cover from the "dean of Canadian #ornithology" James Henry Fleming, previously. Today, I'd like to share the signed letter inside, written to the naturalist Stuart Criddle (1877-1971) at his home "St. Albans", in Aweme, Manitoba. /1
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This March 1825 cover from London to Madeira is addressed to Rev. James Bulwer (1794–1879), an English antiquarian, artist, and naturalist. It was in the Spring of 1825, in Madeira, that Rev. Bulwer discovered a previously unknown species of Petrel.
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This 1912 cover was sent to Robert Ridgway, Curator of Birds at the US National Museum, by Austrian ornithologist Viktor Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, from Hallein, an historic town in Salzburg, Austria, which he called home from 1871 until his death in 1924. /1
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In 1874, the firm of C.J. Maynard & Co. (est. 1865) of Boston, dealers in birds’ eggs and naturalists’ supplies, and publishers of scientific books, had this postal card printed to advise customers of the company’s removal to Newtonville, effective from 10 Oct 1874. /1
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In Dec 1901, George W. Morse (1862–1938) of Ashley, Indiana, sent Willis W. Worthington (1860–1940) of Shelter Island, NY, a letter requesting feedback on sample sheets from his new "Ornithological Observations and Field Notes" book and an oological data notebook. /1
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Like many budding naturalists, Alfred Newton's formative experiences were defined by school & family. His contributions to The Zoologist on Torbay birdlife were a result of family visits to his maternal aunts in Torquay, where this cover found him and Edward in 1853. /1
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This postal card, addressed to ornithologist Walter Bradford Barrows (1855-1923), was stamped ANSWERED on 3 Sep 1886 at the Division of Economic Ornithology; est. in 1885 through lobbying by the American Ornithologists' Union to advance #ornithology as a discipline & profession. /1
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In Feb 1850, 21-year-old Cambridge student, Alfred Newton, sent his brother, Edward, a letter. While the letter is lost, a note written inside the cover survives. In this thread we examine this note between the future co-founders of the British Ornithologists’ Union. /1
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Let's take a look at the development of postal cards acknowledging receipt of money paid to the Cooper Ornithological Club (COC), from 1908 to 1916. We start in 1908 with a very simple design for receipt of dues, signed by COC business manager John Eugene Law. /1
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This 1903 Oliver Spanner & Co. corner cover is from the “dean of Canadian #ornithology" James Henry Fleming (1872-1940). As a youth, Fleming enjoyed spending his free time at the local taxidermy shop of William Cross, where he could meet like-minded naturalists and collectors. /1
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In the late 19th century, avian taxonomy was evolving rapidly. By 1881, Ridgway noted 226 new North American species/races since 1859, 42 names relegated to synonymy, & 300+ amended. For dealers & collectors (as well as scientists), this posed a myriad of challenges. /1
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In 189?, Prof Thomas Egleston of Columbia College, as chair of the New York Academy of Sciences' Audubon Monument Committee, sent this cover to Frederic Ward Putnam of Harvard, who had started his professional life as curator of #ornithology at Essex Institute in Salem in 1856. /1
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