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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 4023712" data-attributes="member: 113430">1885 it is!Suddenly it struck me, in dealing with such a local "celebrity", a well-established citizen, long-term (foreign) resident, celebrated in Natural History, with several connections in/to both the US and old Europe, surely something ought to have been written, about his passing, in a local newspaper ...And there it was!I sure wish I'd found that one earlier, it would definitely have saved me some time, and some unwarranted pondering, as well as ditto writing (and re-writing) ... well, well, now it's found.See the following Death Notice, published in the Costa Rican newspaper, Diario de Costa Rica, 7th of October 1885, the day after his demise (<a href="http://www.sinabi.go.cr/biblioteca%20digital/periodicos/diario%20de%20costa%20rica/diario%20de%20costa%20rica%201885/jg-Diario%20de%20Costa%20Rica_7%20oct_1885.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>, on page 4, or see attached JPG).I'd say that's proof enough that he didn't die ten years later.Anyone still in doubt?BjörnPS. If someone feel like having a full copy, just let me know. If so use BirdForum's Private Message System (and send me an e-mail-address), simply as it's too big to post here (1MB).Lucky for me (and us all) that they started to publish that particular newspaper, the Diario de Costa Rica, in that certain year ("Año I", 1885).-</blockquote>