Frank Blake Webster

Frank Blake Webster (June 16, 1850–November 6, 1922) was an influential ornithological publisher, taxidermist and natural history dealer in the late 19th century.

Following this, he worked as a clerical worker, but he studied ornithology, taxidermy, and collected natural history specimen in the afternoons and evening.

By 1874, the collecting of specimen of natural history became so popular that a naturalists' supply depot was opened in Pawtucket under the name A. L. Ellis & Co. with Webster as a leading member of the company.

[1] In 1884, Webster quit his clerical work to focus on natural history full time,[2] including the dealing of specimen.

However, Webster's group discovered the flightless cormorant, which Rothschild named after taxidermist Charles Miller Harris, a member of the expedition.