Background to the Founders’ blogs
An overview of the 15 Founders of the British Ornithologists’ Club, i.e. those individuals who attended the Club’s inaugural meeting in October 1892, was published on pages 91-95 of the Club’s Bulletin for March 2024, freely available at: Volume 144 Issue 1 | Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club . A subsequent short commentary on this article was then provided on pages 187-188 of the next Bulletin issue: Volume 144 Issue 2 | Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. The overview was planned to introduce 15 successive monthly blogs, now complete and available here, that provide more detail on each of the interestingly disparate ornithologists, both professional and amateur, who were present at the Club’s founding.
Sadly, we have not been able to source photographs of all the Founders. Should anyone know of a picture of those Founders currently lacking one, please contact the Club secretary, Andrew Richford (andysrichford@gmail.com)