Talk:Leon Jacob Cole

1906 expedition sites
"He also joined an expedition to Tortugas and Florida, in 1906." I suspect that the Tortugas in question are the Dry Tortugas, not the wikilinked island of Haiti. Dgorsline (talk) 11:51, 2 April 2013 (UTC) The sources refer to the location as part of Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico:  Dry Tortugas it is. Dgorsline (talk) 12:32, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Rhode Island institution
I suspect that the "Rhode Island Experiment Station" referred to by McCabe and elsewhere is the forerunner of the University of Rhode Island. According to that article, it "was first chartered as the state's agricultural school and agricultural experiment station in 1888.... In 1892, the school became known as the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts," which title it would have had when Cole was there in 1906. Dgorsline (talk) 12:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC) The Bulletin styles it variously as the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station; Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College; and Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Rhode Island. Cole was a co-author of Bulletin 141, 1910, and that bulletin notes that he did much of the work at Sheffield Scientific School, Yale. Dgorsline (talk) 02:54, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

American Bird Banding Association
Cole has 1910 as the date for the organization of the American Bird Banding Association, at an AOU meeting, while Wood has 1909. Will check The Auk for correct date. Dgorsline (talk) 12:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC) The Auk has no information about organizing the ABBA in its reports of the December 1909 or November 1910 meetings. Dgorsline (talk) 12:12, 30 April 2013 (UTC) Still on the trail: Frederick Lincoln, "The History and Purposes of Bird Banding," The Auk 38(2), on page 220, writes that Cole formed the ABBA in New York on 8 December 1909. But a reader of the copy that was scanned and PDF'd had struck out December and written in November! Dgorsline (talk) 00:02, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Honorary degree
Chapman's DSB article calls it an Sc.D. Dickerson and Chapman's article calls it a D.Sc. Dgorsline (talk) 12:45, 30 April 2013 (UTC)