Collins, F. S.: Difference between revisions

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Add a link to "Theosophy in Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'" (The Path, May-June 1888)
(Publish text and card prepared for The Path, vol. II, no. 8 (November 1887), checked against the 1887 scan)
 
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|description=Contributor to ''The Path'', author of [[Collins FS - The Theosophical Meaning of Goethes Faust|"The Theosophical Meaning of Goethe's Faust"]] (November-December 1887), a paper read before the Malden Theosophical Society.
|description=Contributor to ''The Path'', author of [[Collins FS - The Theosophical Meaning of Goethes Faust|"The Theosophical Meaning of Goethe's Faust"]] (November-December 1887) and [[Collins FS - Theosophy in Tennysons Idylls of the King|"Theosophy in Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King'"]] (May-June 1888), both papers read before the Malden Theosophical Society.


Plausibly, but not confirmed, the same Frank Shipley Collins (1848-1920) of Malden, Massachusetts, an accountant at the Boston Rubber Shoe Company who was also the leading American algologist of his era, author of ''The Green Algae of North America'' (1918) and co-author of the exsiccata series ''Phycotheca Boreali-Americana'' (1912-1917); the residence in Malden matches the "Malden Theosophical Society" byline, but no source found directly connects this Frank Shipley Collins to the Theosophical Society or to ''The Path''.
Plausibly, but not confirmed, the same Frank Shipley Collins (1848-1920) of Malden, Massachusetts, an accountant at the Boston Rubber Shoe Company who was also the leading American algologist of his era, author of ''The Green Algae of North America'' (1918) and co-author of the exsiccata series ''Phycotheca Boreali-Americana'' (1912-1917); the residence in Malden matches the "Malden Theosophical Society" byline, but no source found directly connects this Frank Shipley Collins to the Theosophical Society or to ''The Path''.