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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Scottish entomologists, Scottish ornithologists, Allan Octavian Hume, Robert Knox, Robert Edmond Grant, David Macdonald, John Walker, Robert Jameson, Harold Raeburn, Patrick Manson, Andrew Smith, James David Macdonald, Jemima Blackburn, Charles Wyville Thomson, Alexander Wilson, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Nelson Annandale, John Richardson, William Thomas Calman, William MacGillivray, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Archibald Thorburn, Phillip Clancey, James Bell Pettigrew, Robert Sibbald, Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, John Fleming, Robert Gray, John Morton Boyd, Andrew Murray, Patrick Russell, Robert Ramsay Wright, Alexander Bryson, John William Scott Macfie, William Abbott Herdman, John Anderson, James Cossar Ewart, William Carmichael McIntosh, James Rennie, Donald Watson, Henry Ogg Forbes, Norman Boyd Kinnear, Francis Buchanan White, Laurence Edmondston, Desmond Nethersole-Thompson, Roy Crowson, Thomas Stewart Traill, Robert Boog Watson, James Duncan, Adam White, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay, Edward Richard Alston, Edward Hargitt, Raymond Duncan, James Wood-Mason, John Russell Malloch, Kenneth Morton, Arthur Landsborough Thomson. Excerpt: Allan Octavian Hume (6 June 1829 - 31 July 1912) was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist in British India. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead the Indian independence movement. A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian ornithology." Hume was born at St Mary Cray, Kent, the son of Joseph Hume, the Radical MP. He was educated at East India Company College, Haileybury, and then at University College Hospital, where he studied medicine and surgery. In 1849 he s...
