Charles Sidney Thompson (January 6, 1881 – March 21, 1960) was an American

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

and

philatelist Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possible ...

. Thompson served as a secretary of the Cooper Ornithological Club and was a member of the

American Philatelic Society The American Philatelic Society (APS) is the largest nonprofit stamp collecting foundation of philately in the world. Both the membership and interests of the society are worldwide. History The organization, originally named the ''American Phila ...

and the American Stamp Dealers Association. He edited the ''Weekly Philatelic Gossip'' in 1941.

Biography

Thompson was born in 1881 in Canada but eventually ended up in

Pasadena, California Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commerci ...

. He collected specimens in California, Florida, Oregon, Utah and Massachusetts and other countries such Canada, Iceland, Sweden, Portugal, England, Australia, Spain, Israel, Russia, and the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...

. Thompson's collection, found at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in

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was once part of the Southwest Museum where he was, by 1916, curator of economic and field ornithology. Thompson's collection contains many sets collected by George D. Peck (Oregon), part of H.A. Snows' collection (California), and Henry R. Taylor (California). The foreign sets of eggs found at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology that were collected by Thompson appear to have been obtained from turn-of-the-century European dealers. Thompson collected mostly from the year 1899 to 1914. He died in 1960.

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Example of Thompson's egg card
1881 births 1960 deaths American ornithologists 20th-century American zoologists {{Ornithologist-stub