Frank Finn

Frank Finn ( * 1868 in Maidstone, Kent, England; † October 1, 1932 ) was an English ornithologist.

Finn was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1892 he took part in a Sammelexpediton to East Africa. In 1894 he was the first assistant to the head at the Indian Museum in Calcutta and from 1895 to 1903, the deputy head. After his return to England he was from 1909 to 1910 editor of Avicultural Magazine.

Finn was a prolific writer. His works include How to Know the Indian Ducks (1901 ), Birds of Calcutta ( 1901), How to Know the Indian Waders (1906 ), Ornithological and other Oddities (1907 ), The Making of Species (1909, with Douglas Dewar ), Eggs and Nests of British Birds ( 1910), Wild Animals of Yesterday and Today (1915), Garden and Aviary Birds of India (1915 ) and Indian Sporting Birds ( 1915).

Literature on Frank Finn

  • Mullens, William Herbert & Swann, Harry Kirke ( 1917/Nachdruck 1986) A Bibliography of British Ornithology ISBN 0-854-86098-3

Online versions of Frank Finn works

  • How to know the Indian waders
  • The Waterfowl of India
  • The game birds of India
  • Garden and Aviary Birds of India
  • The Birds of Calcutta
  • Ornithological and other oddities
  • The worlds birds
  • Talk about birds
  • Bird behavior: Psychical and Physiological
  • Ornithologist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1868
  • Died in 1932
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