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Nuttall Ornithological Club: Memoirs

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History of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1987-2015

William E Davis, Jr., David B Donsker, Dana R Duxbury-Fox

2017

"Traces the development of the Club from 1986 through 2015, with all the struggles that the Club endured; for example with IRS problems when the Club's funds surpassed that allowable for a Public Charity, and the coping with the many twists and turns associated with entering the digital age. It also contains biographical sketches of all of the Members who were active between 1986 and 2015 that paint a portrait of the membership and their ornithological interests and accomplishments."

The American Ornithologists' Union: The First Century, 1883-1983

Author: Keir B. Sterling, Marianne G. Ainley

Editor: William E. Davis, Jr., Byron K. Butler

2016

"A history of the first 100 years of the A.O.U., highlighting the Union's activities and accomplishments, relating some to overall developments in the evolution of American natural science."

The Birds of New Hampshire

Allan R. Keith and Robert P. Fox

2013

"The first state-wide coverage of all species in 110 years. Status and distribution for all 427 species, seasons of occurrence and abundance. History of New Hampshire Christmas Counts. Summary of New Hampshire Hawk-watching data. Location and identity of over 4800 museum specimens collected in the state. Summary of over 17,500 bird band returns for New Hampshire. Breeding Bird Survey results since 1966. Bibliography of over 1200 titles covering the last 200 years."

Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology,
Volume II

Editor: William E. Davis Jr, Harry F. Recher and Walter E. Boles

2012

"This volume contains chapters on the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (including: Birds Australia and BirdLife Australia); an 1840s perspective on the depletion of the avifauna of the North Island, New Zealand; history of ornithology at: Museum Victoria, Melbourne, the Australian Museum, Sydney, the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand; Alexander and William Sharp and William John Macleay: their ornithology and museum; environmental ornithology at the Australian Museum; and Australian ornithology in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean."

Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology,
Volume III

Editor: William E. Davis Jr and Jerome A. Jackson

2010

"This volume contains chapters on the first 60 years of the Massachusetts Audubon Society; ornithology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Tall Timbers Research Station, and Archbold Biological Station; ornithology in Delaware and the Delaware Museum of Natural History; and ornithology at Manomet Bird Observatory. It concludes with biographical chapters on John Richardson and early Saskatchewan bird banders."

Early Tasmanian Ornithology: The Correspondence of Ronald Campbell Gunn and James Grant 1836-1838

Editor: William E. Davis Jr

2009

"This correspondence is the earliest attempt to identify and arrange taxonomically the birds of Tasmania and is some of the earliest avian taxonomic work by residents of Australia. It illustrates the difficulties implicit in taxonomic work in a pre-Darwinian era."

Bird Banding in North America: The First Hundred Years

Editor: Jerome A. Jackson, William E. Davis and John Tautin

2008

"This book deals with the early history of bird banding; the role of banding organizations; the Bird Banding Laboratory; the role of bird banding in population monitoring; restoration of declining or extirpated populations; quantitative population ecology; management of migratory bird hunting; avian toxicology; understanding habitat use; international waterbird conservation; investigation of disease, safety, and economics; and behavioral research."

Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology

Editor: William E. Davis, Jr., Harry F. Recher, Walter E. Boles, and Jerome A. Jackson

2008

Contents:

• A Man of Great Zeal and Assiduity: The Pioneering Naturalist John Gilbert in Australia, 1838-1845 - Clemency Fisher
• Ornithology at the Auckland Museum, New Zealand - B.J. Gill
• A History of Ornithology at the Western Australian Museum - R.E. Johnstone
• The Role of the Commonwealth Scientific and Indutrial Organisation (CSIRO) in Australian Ornithology - Ian Rowley
• The Changing Faces of Systematics and Biogeography in Australian Ornithology: A Young Turk's View - Leo Joseph
• Establishing a National Reference Collection of Birds: The First Forty Years of the Birds of the Australian National Wildlife Collection - Richard Schodde
• The History of Threatened Birds in Australia and its Offshore Islands - Stephen T. Garnett and Gabriel M. Crowley.

Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology,
Volume II

Editor: William E. Davis Jr and Jerome A. Jackson

2000

"The history of American Ornithology at universities, museums, government agencies, societies, and foundations written by key figures at those institutions."

Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology

Editor: William E. Davis Jr and Jerome A. Jackson

1995

"The history of American Ornithology at universities, museums, government agencies, societies, and foundations written by key figures at those institutions."

History of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 1873-1986

William E. Davis

1987

Cuban Ornithology

Thomas Barbour

1943

An Account of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 1873 to 1919

Charles Foster Batchelder

1937

The Birds of Newfoundland Labrador

Oliver Luther Austin, Jr

1932

The Birds of Cuba

Thomas Barbour

1923

Supplement to The Birds of Essex County Massachusetts

Charles Wendell Townsend

1920

The Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts

William Brewster

1906

From the preface:

"The present Memoir was undertaken upwards of ten years ago at the request of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. For reasons which need not be mentioned here, its progress has been vexatiously slow, and - what is still more unfortunate - its completion at the present time has been made possible only by the sacrifice of certain historical features contemplated in its original plan. Nevertheless, it is hoped that the paper will prove of use to the members of the Club, as well as to other persons especially interested in the ornithology of the Cambridge Region. No attempt has been made to give full life histories of the birds. On the contrary, I have abstained from saying anything about their habits, songs, etc., save in cases where some mention of these and kindred matters has seemed essential to a clearer understanding of the reasons governing the local occurrence or distribution of certain of the species, or desirable for the purpose of rendering commonplace or otherwise tedious details more attractive. What I have had chiefly in mind has been to state as definitely as possible the times and seasons when each species has been noted, the numbers in which it has occurred, at long past as well as in very recent times, and the precise character and, in some instances also, situation of its favorite local haunts."

The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts

Charles Wendell Townsend

1905

The Ipswich Sparrow (Ammodramus princeps Maynard) and Its Summer Home

Jonathan Dwight, Jr

1895

Opening line: "Discovered among the sand-hills of Ipswich, Massachusetts, by Mr. C. J. Maynard, and the single specimen obtained by him December 4, 1868, wrongly identified as Baird's Sparrow of the far West by no less eminent an authority than Professor S. F. Baird, the Ipswich Sparrow, for a long time after it was recognized as a new species, enjoyed a reputation for rarity which later observations have not sustained. Gradually the few energetic collectors who have cared to face the wintry winds that sweep the desolate stretches of low sand-hills fringing so much of our Atlantic coast, have proved the bird to be a regular migrant or winter visitor, found more or less abundantly from Maine to Georgia. For nearly sixteen years after its discovery there was no clue to its breeding haunts until, in 1884, a single summer specimen was obtained from Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Until ten years later no successful effort was made to solve the mystery shrouding the summer home of a shy and silent species that disappeared from our shores with the earliest breath of spring, not to return again before the frosts of autumn had browned the waving clumps of coarse grass where it makes its winter home. It was in the hope of reading some of the unturned pages of the life-history of this interesting Sparrow that I visited Sable Island during the summer of 1894. A long personal acquaintance with the bird, added to my recent observations, enables me to present a comprehensive account of a species which, a New England discovery itself, annually imitates the Pilgrim Fathers in landing on New England's shores; and I am confident my brother ornithologists, of that part of the country at least, will feel a particular interest in the new facts I am able to present regarding a species so peculiarly their own."

Bird Migration

William Brewster

1886