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...prey are protected." This is not strictly accurate: Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the world primarily for the birds of prey, but these birds are protected together with other species of wild life in the National Parks and certain other sanctuaries. Particularly the National Association of Audubon Societies is to be congratulated on the reversal of its policy regarding the birds of prey. The Association formerly recommended the trapping of hawks, but it now urges that they be rigidly protected; and such protection is given on all Audubon sanctuaries...
From Harvard's collections of original drawings by Audubon, there are shown colored portraits of the passenger pigeon, now extinct, and that of the American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...
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...
...display also contains an original letter written by Audubon to Daniel Webster in Washington, D.C. in 1841 urging that the government found a "Natural History Institute to advance our knowledge of Natural Science, and place me at the head of it." Audubon was in financial difficulties at the time, but refused a government sinecure under Webster, saying, "I fear anything but Natural History, in which I am an authority, would be hard for me to attend...