Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Here's some additional bits and pieces (found along the way while checking/looking for some of Rothschild's many Birds), on the guy commemorated in the scientific name ...
dunstalli as in:
• the invalid hybrid (in Thraupidae) Ramphocelus dunstalli ROTSCHILD 1895 (here), as "Rhamphocoelus [sic] dunstalli", a k a Dunstall’s Tanager
Also commented by Hartert, in 1919 (here):
In today's Key explained as:
He's also mentioned (as such) in The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, Vol. 2 (1906), on p.343. See below:
He's as well mentioned here (as the same):
He was also included in the Who's Who in Business (of 1914) here (alt. see the attached excerpt below) [my blue]:
Same address (and the very same Initials) are found/shown in the Marconi International Directory of Cable Addresses: Buyers' & Exporters' Guide (of 1922), here.
And: if we're to follow what's told in the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club (of 1912) it looks like we ought to look for a George Kirkman Dunstall, residing (also at that point) at "39, Redcross Street, E.C"), see here. And note that he, in the 1915 issue of the same Journal, was listed as: "Dunstall, George Kirkman, F.R.M.S".
Also, as ditto, here (though, without the "F.R.M.S", part, of course).
However, that's all I could find, but maybe it's enough to find him in full?
For whatever it's worth ...
Björn
PS. Beware of a possible mix-up, if following the later traces/clues of his Life ...
In the London Street Directory, of 1921 (here), we find the following addressee at No. 39 (for Redcross Street, Cripplegate (EC1) (City), ...): "Dunstall G K & Son, ostrich feather merchants".
*Larsson, E. J. 2019. Collecting, curating and the construction of zoological knowledge Walter Rothschild’s zoological enterprise, c. 1878-1937. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, King’s College London, September 2019. (see top of p.332).
dunstalli as in:
• the invalid hybrid (in Thraupidae) Ramphocelus dunstalli ROTSCHILD 1895 (here), as "Rhamphocoelus [sic] dunstalli", a k a Dunstall’s Tanager
Also commented by Hartert, in 1919 (here):
In today's Key explained as:
... which, in my mind, ought to be expanded into: G. K. Dunstall (fl. from 1892, until at least 1910, alt. even into 1914), Ostrich and Fancy Feather Merchant, who sold Natural history specimens to Rothschild [also incl. Coleoptera (Beetles), as well as various, different Bird skins, for example/s, of Hummingbirds (according to Larsson, 2019*) , and/alt. Bronze Parotias (the latter according to here)]
He's also mentioned (as such) in The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, Vol. 2 (1906), on p.343. See below:
He's as well mentioned here (as the same):
He was also included in the Who's Who in Business (of 1914) here (alt. see the attached excerpt below) [my blue]:
Same address (and the very same Initials) are found/shown in the Marconi International Directory of Cable Addresses: Buyers' & Exporters' Guide (of 1922), here.
And: if we're to follow what's told in the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club (of 1912) it looks like we ought to look for a George Kirkman Dunstall, residing (also at that point) at "39, Redcross Street, E.C"), see here. And note that he, in the 1915 issue of the same Journal, was listed as: "Dunstall, George Kirkman, F.R.M.S".
Also, as ditto, here (though, without the "F.R.M.S", part, of course).
However, that's all I could find, but maybe it's enough to find him in full?
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For whatever it's worth ...
Björn
PS. Beware of a possible mix-up, if following the later traces/clues of his Life ...
In the London Street Directory, of 1921 (here), we find the following addressee at No. 39 (for Redcross Street, Cripplegate (EC1) (City), ...): "Dunstall G K & Son, ostrich feather merchants".
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*Larsson, E. J. 2019. Collecting, curating and the construction of zoological knowledge Walter Rothschild’s zoological enterprise, c. 1878-1937. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, King’s College London, September 2019. (see top of p.332).
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