Article ID: CBB001220861

Leslie McCracken and Charles Bethune Horsbrugh: Collecting Birds' Eggs in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and Early 1930s (2012)

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This paper is a case-study of a school-boy's egg collection in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and early 1930s. The collection and Leslie McCracken's friendship with Charles Bethune Horsbrugh, an established naturalist, not only expanded McCracken's consciousness far beyond the boundaries of his rural existence but also reveal, through the specimens given to McCracken by Captain Horsbrugh, the considerable extent of amateur egg-collecting and the interchange of eggs both within Ireland and Great Britain, and further afield, then and in previous generations. A socio-historic sketch is provided, together with an account of the more interesting bird's eggs, their collectors, and the location of collection.

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Authors & Contributors
Karl Schulze-Hagen
Shmuely, Shira Dina
Jackson Pope
Bruno M. Goddeeris
Boudewijn R. Goddeeris
Trachtenberg, Zev
Concepts
Natural history
Collectors and collecting
Ornithology
Birds
Naturalists
Biographies
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Atlantic world
Bath (England)
Atlantic Ocean
England
Wales
Institutions
Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Library of Natural Sounds
British Trust for Ornithology
Cornell University
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