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The most recent authority, however, is Mr. Allen O. Hume, C.B., who, like Blyth and Jerdon, got around him numerous workers, and did so much for Ornithology, that without his Journal Stray Feathers, no accurate knowledge could be gained of the distribution of Indian birds.
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Hume delegated the task of getting the plates made to Marshall.
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Hume had sent specific notes on colours of soft parts and instructions to the artists.He was unsatisfied with many of the plates and included additional notes on the plates in the book.This book was started at the point when the government demoted Hume and only the need to finance the publication of this book prevented him from retiring from service.He retired from service on 1 January 1882 after the publication.[4]
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I have performed my portion of the work to the very best of my abilities, and yet personally felt almost as if I were sailing under false colors in appearing before the world as one of the authors of this book; but I allow my name to appear as such, partly because Mr. Hume strongly wishes it, partly because I do believe that as Mr. Hume says this work, which has been for years called for, would never have appeared had I not proceeded to England, and arranged for the preparation of the plates, and partly because with the explanation thus afforded no one can justly misconstrue my action.
Hume's comment on the illustration The plate is a cruel caricature of the species, just sufficiently like to permit of identification, but miscolored to a degree only explicable on the hypothesis of somebody's colour-blindness… Fortunately for our supporters, this is the very worst plate in the three volumes.
Hume's comment on the illustration The plate is a cruel caricature of the species, just sufficiently like to permit of identification, but miscolored to a degree only explicable on the hypothesis of somebody's colour-blindness… Fortunately for our supporters, this is the very worst plate in the three volumes.White-fronted Goose One of the illustrations that Hume considered as exceptionally good.
White-fronted Goose One of the illustrations that Hume considered as exceptionally good.
Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds (1883)
This was another major work by Hume and in it he covered descriptions of the nests, eggs and the breeding seasons of most Indian bird species.It makes use of notes from contributors to his journals as well as other correspondents and works of the time.
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Mr. Hume has sufficiently explained the circumstances under which this edition of his popular work has been brought about.I have merely to add that, as I was engaged on a work on the Birds of India, I thought it would be easier for me than for anyone else to assist Mr. Hume.I was also in England, and knew that my labour would be very much lightened by passing the work through the press in this country.Another reason, perhaps the most important, was the fear that, as Mr. Hume had given up entirely and absolutely the study of birds, the valuable material he had taken such pains to accumulate for this edition might be irretrievably lost or further injured by lapse of time unless early steps were taken to utilize it.
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Stoliczka in a dying request had asked that Hume should edit the volume on the ornithological results.
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After retiring from the civil services and towards the end of Lord Lytton's rule, Hume sensed that the people of India had got a sense of hopelessness and wanted to do something, "a sudden violent outbreak of sporadic crime, murders of obnoxious persons, robbery of bankers and looting of bazaars, acts really of lawlessness which by a due coalescence of forces might any day develop into a National Revolt."He felt that the British government had a studied and invariable disregard, if not actually contempt for the opinions and feelings of our subjects, is at the present day the leading characteristic of our government in every branch of the administration.[14]
There were agrarian riots in the Deccan and Bombay and Hume decided that an Indian Union would be a good safety valve and outlet for this unrest.On the 1st of March 1883 he wrote a letter to the graduates of Calcutta University:[15]
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The idea of the Indian Union took shape and Hume also had support from Lord Dufferin for this although the latter wished to keep a low profile in the matter.It has been suggested that the idea was originally conceived in a private meeting of seventeen men after a Theosophical Convention held at Madras in December 1884.Hume took the initiative, and it was in March 1885, when the first notice was issued convening the first Indian National Union to meet at Poona the following December.[15]
He attempted to increase the Congress base by bringing in more farmers, townspeople and Muslims between 1886 and 1887 and this created a backlash from the British rules leading to backtracking by the Congress.Hume was disappointed when Congress opposed moves to raise the age of marriage for Indian girls and failed to focus on issues of poverty.In 1892, he tried to get them to act by warning of a violent agrarian revolution but this only outraged the British establishment and frightened the Congress elite.Disappointed by the continued lack of Indian leaders willing to work for the cause of national emancipation, Hume left for Britain in 1894.[4]
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The SLBI has a herbarium containing approximately 100,000 specimens mostly of flowering plants from the British Isles and Europe including many collected by Hume.The collection was later augmented by the addition of other herbaria over the years, and has significant collections of Rubus (bramble) species and of the Shetland flora, the latter including a major gift from the late Richard Palmer, joint author of the standard work on Shetland plants.Other resources include a very good library originally containing Hume's own books.The institute today has classroom facilities, a small botanical garden, and an ongoing programme of talks and courses.In the years leading up to the establishment of the Institute, Hume built up links with many of the leading botanists of his day.
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^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Moulton, Edward (2003) 'The Contributions of Allan O. Hume to the Scientific Advancement of Indian Ornithology' in Petronia: Fifty Years of Post-Independence Ornithology in India, ed.
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^ Lydekker, R. (1913) Catalogue of the Heads and Horns of Indian Big Game bequeathed by A. O. Hume, C. B., to the British Museum.
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^ Stamp commemorating Hume - Indian Postal Department
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^ Hume, A. 1869.Ibis 2 (5): 355-357 (no title). ^ Bensch, S and D. Pearson (2002) The Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus revisited.Ibis (2002), 144:259-267 PDF Nucleotide sequence
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^ Hume to Northbrook, 1 August 1872, Northbrook Papers, cited in Mehrotra 2005 ^ a b Sitaramayya, B. Pattabhi.1935.The History of the Indian National Congress.Working Committee of the Congress.Scanned version
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