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'''Arthur Edward Osmaston''' (4 March 1885<ref>[https://archive.org/details/classifiedlistof00indirich/page/36/mode/1up Classified list of forest officers 1916]</ref>-1961) was a forest officer and naturalist in India. He studied at the [[Royal Indian Engineering College]], Cooper's Hill, and joined the [[Indian Forest Department]] in the [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]]. During his thirty years of service, he studied the birds and flora of the region and wrote numerous papers in the Journal of the [[Bombay Natural History Society]]. His collection of bird specimens was given to [[Hugh Whistler]] in 1931 and is now in the Natural History Museum.<small>''[which one?]''</small><br />
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==Publications==<br />
* Osmaston A.E. (1929): On the forest types in India. ''Acta Forestalia Fennica'' 34(12):3-7. {{doi|10.14214/aff.7225}}<br />
* Osmaston, A E (1921): [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00016653a;view=1up;seq=188 Note on the nidification and habits of some birds in British Garhwal]. JBNHS. 28(1):140-160.<br />
* Osmaston, A E (1916): Curious habits of Wood-peckers in the Kumaon hills. JBNHS. 24(2):363-366.<br />
* Osmaston, A E (1913): [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035491813;view=1up;seq=706 The birds of Gorakhpur]. JBNHS. 22(3):532-549.<br />
* Osmaston, A E (1912): [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c038388306;view=1up;seq=1576 Eggs of the Large Hawk-Cuckoo ''Hierococcyx sparverioides'']. JBNHS. 21(4):1330-1331.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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==References==<br />
* Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.<br />
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