Word: auduboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
Last week Executive Director John H. Baker of the National Audubon Societies surveyed by air a lifeless desert, populated only by spinning whirlwinds of sand and hot ashes, where a green wilderness used to teem with birds-ibis, herons, cranes, ducks, snowy egrets...
...stop indiscriminate selling of hunting licenses, John H. Baker, executive director of the National Association of Audubon Societies, proposed examinations comparable to automobile drivers' tests. An applicant, he mildly suggested, should be made to show his knowledge of how to load, carry, fire and unload a gun, prove his ability to read game laws and posted signs, know by sight the game birds and animals in his vicinity...
...ages, men's imaginations have been stirred by the flight of birds. No more dramatic flights have been recorded than those of the pastel-colored passenger pigeons-Audubon guessed a billion in one flock-which once streamed across U. S. skies. The speed with which they were slaughtered was no less fabulous than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised...
...Organs by Alexis Carrel and Charles A. Lindberghf-which formally presented to medicine the sum of Nobel Laureate Carrel's 40 years in science. More than any other man, Scientist Carrel has made it possible to study tissue and organs outside of their organisms, but alive. Just as Audubon's first scientific observations of living birds immeasurably advanced ornithology beyond the study of lifeless stuffed specimens, this new technique in physiology leaves classical anatomy and dissection far behind...