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Walter James Franklin Williamson
Sir Walter James Franklin Williamson (16 April 1867 – 19 November 1954) was a colonial British official who worked as a financial advisor to the Kingdom of Siam. He also took an interest in collecting stamps and studied the birds of the region, collecting specimens of natural history from Thailand. Several taxa have been described on the basis of his specimens and many commemorate him. He was for sometime editor of the ''Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam'' along with Malcolm Arthur Smith, Malcolm Smith. Williamson was the son of James Franklin Williamson of the Indian Public Works Department. He studied at the City of London School and Clifton House School, Eastbourne after which he joined the Indian Civil Service serving as an accountant general for India from 1890 to 1900 and then as director of paper currency in Siam from 1900-1904. He then served as a financial advisor to the Siam Government from 1904 to 1925 and subsequently served in Estonia and for the League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter James Franklin Williamson
Sir Walter James Franklin Williamson (16 April 1867 – 19 November 1954) was a colonial British official who worked as a financial advisor to the Kingdom of Siam. He also took an interest in collecting stamps and studied the birds of the region, collecting specimens of natural history from Thailand. Several taxa have been described on the basis of his specimens and many commemorate him. He was for sometime editor of the ''Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam'' along with Malcolm Arthur Smith, Malcolm Smith. Williamson was the son of James Franklin Williamson of the Indian Public Works Department. He studied at the City of London School and Clifton House School, Eastbourne after which he joined the Indian Civil Service serving as an accountant general for India from 1890 to 1900 and then as director of paper currency in Siam from 1900-1904. He then served as a financial advisor to the Siam Government from 1904 to 1925 and subsequently served in Estonia and for the League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaked Weaver
The streaked weaver (''Ploceus manyar'') is a species of weaver bird found in South Asia and South-east Asia in the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and also introduced in Qatar and United Arab Emirates (UAE). These are not as common as the baya weaver The baya weaver (''Ploceus philippinus'') is a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. of these birds are found in grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub and secondary growth and they are best known for their hanging ret ... but are similar looking but have streaked underparts. They nest in small colonies often in reed beds near water bodies. References streaked weaver Birds of South Asia Birds of Southeast Asia streaked weaver {{Ploceidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Naturalists
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1867 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed after its designer, John A. Roebling, in 1983. * January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia. * January 11 – Benito Juárez becomes Mexican president again. * January 30 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan dies suddenly, age 36, leaving his 14-year-old son to succeed as Emperor Meiji. * January 31 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon aboard a French ship for Algeria. * February 3 – ''Shōgun'' Tokugawa Yoshinobu abdicates, and the late Emperor Kōmei's son, Prince Mutsuhito, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan in a brief ceremony in Kyoto, ending the Late Tokugawa shogunate. * February 7 – West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia. * Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a ''cathedral of nature''—both exemplified by the large ''Diplodocus'' cast that domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown-streaked Flycatcher
The brown-streaked flycatcher (''Muscicapa williamsoni'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in southern Myanmar, southern Thailand, northern peninsular Malaysia, and northeast Borneo. Some authorities consider it to be a subspecies of the Asian brown flycatcher. In 2020, a vagrant was sighted south of the Australian town of Broome and its identity was confirmed from DNA analysis from the droppings of the bird. The species has a rufescent plumage in the breeding season and then becomes drab. The species name is after the collector Sir Walter James Franklin Williamson Sir Walter James Franklin Williamson (16 April 1867 – 19 November 1954) was a colonial British official who worked as a financial advisor to the Kingdom of Siam. He also took an interest in collecting stamps and studied the birds of the region, c .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15133675 Muscicapa Birds of Southeast Asia Birds described in 1957 Taxa named by Herbert Girton Deig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbott's Babbler
Abbott's babbler (''Malacocincla abbotti'') is a species of bird in the family Pellorneidae. It is widely distributed along the Himalayas in South Asia and extending into the forests of Southeast Asia. They are short-tailed and stout birds which forage in pairs in dense undergrowth close to the ground and their presence is indicated by their distinctive calls. Taxonomy Abbott's babbler was described by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 and given the binomial name ''Malacocincla abbotti''. The genus name ''Malacocincla'' combines the Ancient Greek ''malakos'' meaning "soft" with modern Latin ''cinclus'', meaning " thrush"; referring to the birds' full and drooping plumage. The specific name ''abbotti'' was chosen by Blyth to honour the specimen collector, Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Abbott (1811–1888), who served in British India as Assistant Commissioner of the Arakan from 1837 to 1845. Blyth erected the new genus ''Malacocincla'' for this species, but subsequent workers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the extremity of Myanmar. Thailand also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast, and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the nation's capital and largest city. Tai peoples migrated from southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia from the 11th century. Indianised kingdoms such as the Mon, Khmer Empire and Malay states ruled the region, competing with Thai states such as the Kingdoms of Ngoenyang, Sukhothai, Lan Na and Ayutthaya, which also rivalled each other. European contact began in 1511 with a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Ayutthaya, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian White-eye
The Indian white-eye (''Zosterops palpebrosus''), formerly the Oriental white-eye, is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. It is a resident breeder in open woodland on the Indian subcontinent. They forage in small groups, feeding on nectar and small insects. They are easily identified by the distinctive white eye-ring and overall yellowish upperparts. The range previously extended eastwards to Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia but when the taxa in these regions were assigned to other species, the English name was changed. Taxonomy The Indian white-eye was described by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1824 from a specimen collected in Bengal. He coined the binomial name ''Sylvia palpebrosa''. The English and scientific names refer to the conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eyes, ''palpebrosus'' being New Latin for "having prominent eyelids", from the Latin ''palpebrae'' "eyelids". The English name of this species was changed from "Oriental w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous Woodpecker
The rufous woodpecker (''Micropternus brachyurus'') is a medium-sized brown woodpecker native to South and Southeast Asia. It is short-billed, foraging in pairs on small insects, particularly ants and termites, in scrub, evergreen, and deciduous forests and is noted for building its nest within the carton nests of arboreal ants in the genus ''Crematogaster''. It was for sometime placed in the otherwise Neotropical genus ''Celeus'' but this has been shown to be a case of evolutionary convergence and molecular phylogenetic studies support its placement in the monotypic genus ''Micropternus''. Taxonomy This species was formerly placed in the South American genus ''Celeus'' due to external resemblance but its disjunct distribution placed it in doubt. Studied in 2006 based on DNA sequence comparisons have confirmed that the rufous woodpecker is not closely related to ''Celeus'' and is a sister of the genus ''Meiglyptes'' and best placed within the monotypic genus ''Micropternus''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
