Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly 100 years ago, the first great U. S. bird painter, John James Audubon. finished his huge folio of 435 hand-colored engravings, in a subscribed edition of 161. Until last fortnight it stood as the one monumental achievement in American bird-portraiture. But compared with Audubon's 489 supposedly distinct species. Rex Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) has done 900 plates showing 1,200 species of North American birds. Every coloration difference due to age, sex, season or (as with the caracara) attitude, has been shown, bringing the total of figures to 3.000. All are based on sketches drawn...
...Audubon's three largest and finest canvases, an oil painting of "Black Cocks" on a grouse moor, has just been presented to the University Museum by Mr. John Eliot Thayer '85, of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Mr. Thayer has recently given the University Museum his great collection of birds' eggs and nests...
Little known (its eggs were found only three years ago), seldom seen except in the far South (it stops infrequently on its flight from Baffin Land), is the great blue goose. Last week President Thomas Gilbert Pearson of the National Association of Audubon Societies concluded an airplane inspection of the many blue geese that winter in southern Louisiana. Near the mouth of the Mississippi he encountered a flock three miles long, half a mile wide. The geese were flying in three strata. Dr. Pearson estimated there were between 600,000 and a million of them. Because they migrate so quickly...
Dealing with the career of an uncouth but righteous and ambitious Cajun who makes good at Louisiana State, Cane Juice is earnestly, sometimes ably written. Like many another contemporary novel of student life, it introduces toping and lechery. There are observations on the sugar industry (Louisiana State has an Audubon Sugar School) and in the end the hero wins a refined girl ("union of sweet nurtured cane with the rough stock of the wilderness") and is indicated as a potential sugar tycoon...
...five successive years. The U. S. would reimburse itself by selling through postoffices $1 Federal licenses to hunt ducks and other migratory birds. Annual Government income, Mr. Gordon figures, would be from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000. President Thomas Gilbert Pearson of the National Association of Audubon Societies reported after extensive study that Army posts would make fine game sanctuaries...