Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology. [Volume I]

Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. B&W photos. (Volume I). Memoir No. 12. 501 pp. The history of American Ornithology at universities, museums, government agencies, societies, and foundations written by key figures at those institutions. Contents include: the Academy of Natural Sciences, the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, the University of Kansas, the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, the U.S. Forest Service, Canada's National Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, Alexander Wilson, North American Avian Biogeography, Canadian Ornithology, and the Literature of the History of North American Ornithology.