theibis

The Ibis

1869 Second Series--Volume V

1870 Second Series--Volume VI

1871 Third Series--Volume I

1872 Third Series--Volume II

1873 Third Series--Volume III

1874 Third Series--Volume IV

1875 ((see below))

Third Series--Volume V

1876 Third Series--Volume VI

1877 Fourth Series--Volume I

1878 Fourth Series--Volume II

1879 Fourth Series--Volume III

1880 Fourth Series--Volume IV

1881 Fourth Series--Volume V

1882 Fourth Series--Volume VI

1883 Fifth Series--Volume I

1884 Fifth Series--Volume II

1885 Fifth Series--Volume III

1886 Fifth Series--Volume IV

1887 Fifth Series--Volume V

1888 Fifth Series--Volume VI

1889 Sixth Series--Volume I

1890 Sixth Series--Volume II

1891 Sixth Series--Volume III

1892 Sixth Series--Volume IV

1893 Sixth Series--Volume V

1894 Sixth Series--Volume VI

1895 Seventh Series--Volume I

1896 Seventh Series--Volume II

1897 Seventh Series--Volume III

1898 Seventh Series--Volume IV

1899 Seventh Series--Volume V

1900 Seventh Series--Volume VI

1901--1909

1901 Eighth Series--Volume I

1902 Eighth Series--Volume II

1903 Eighth Series--Volume III

1904 Eighth Series--Volume IV

1905 Eighth Series--Volume V

1906 Eighth Series--Volume VI

1907 Ninth Series--Volume I

1908 Ninth Series--Volume II

1909 Ninth Series--Volume III

The Ibis, A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology.

The Ibis is the organ of publication of the British Ornithologists' Union. It was long issued as a small, octavo edition, but more recently, it has appeared in a larger format. Originally the volumes were numerated as a series, each of which being completed by six volumes for that many years, but this method was later abandoned in favor of numbering the volumes according to each consecutive year.

Keulemans contributed to The Ibis every year from 1869--1909. In the 1869 edition (Second Series--Volume V) his name appeared as the lithographer, not as the colorist, on a number of plates. All of the plates from these editions are available in this exhibit.

Total separate images available: 390

The Ibis, 1875.

Plate VII Palaeornis exsul.

This plate was also reproduced through a photolithographic process in the Hakluyt Society edition of The Voyage of Francois Leguat... (P. Oliver, ed., 1891).

Plate I. Glaucidium gnoma.

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Plate II.

Glaucidium pumilum.

Glaucidium griseiceps.

Plate VI.

Accipiter ovampensis.

"...I have already explained to the Police that I have taken the Plates from the Books in the Museum. I cannot explain why I should have done this but I can only put it down to the collectors [sic] madness. I have been a specialist on the subject of the Accipitres for many years, and have always been endeavouring by purchase or by painting copies to obtain plates of the different species, and have spent a large amount of money in this matter. In a moment of temptation I could not resist taking some that I had been unable to obtain before. God knows I have regretted this fatal blunder on my part, and I would do anything in my power to endeavour to pay for my fault, either by paying for the damage done or in any way by paying for the purchase of new books. I have a large number of the complete volumes of 'The Ibis' from which I could take any of the missing plates to replace those which are missing. I would further present to the Transvaal Museum, all my books of paintings of South African Birds, some thirty volumes, containing an average of 30 plates each.

"...I have, I believe, been able to do something towards the cause of Science, both by my studies and by my paintings of South African birds. I have always been particularly fond of ornithology, and have done my best to further the knowledge of this subject, and had had [sic] hopes of continuing to do so. And the Transvaal Museum has in the past gained considerably by the specimens of many rare birds I have collected."

from the letter of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1875--1920) to H. G. Breyer, Director of Transvaal Museum, Feb. 1920.