Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Original colored drawings of birds by John J. Audubon, pioneer American naturalist, whose pictures a century ago first familiarized the world with American bird life, are shown in an exhibition at Widener...
...connection with the folio, the exhibit illustrates the famous controversy Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...
...York Historical Society. Directly across West 77th Street from the ungainly American Museum of Natural History, the New York Historical Society boasts and refuses to transfer 464 of the most important original watercolor drawings of John James Audubon. Other treasures include rooms full of historical portraits, the Isaac J. Greenwood Collection of 405 watercolor drawings of powder horns...
...lovers and gunners who had hitherto spent their energies fighting each other agreed to get together and fight for wildlife. Sinking their crotchets in a temporary General Wildlife Federation, they chose "Ding" for temporary president. Then they went home to enlist women's clubs, garden clubs, camera clubs, Audubon societies and sportsmen's associations in State Federations. To the second North American conference in St. Louis last week went 800 representatives of 46 State Federations with some 3,000,000 members. Already they had secured enough State conservation legislation to make Founder Darling feel that his efforts...
Hesier's "An American Doctor's Odysey" led the non-fiction field, with "The Flowering of New England," "Audubon," the Bible, "Enjoyment of Laughter," and "Inside Europe" also proving popular...