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Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson Will Receive the National Audubon Society's Audubon Medal at a benefit dinner in New York City next month...
...origin of one of the main lines of American painting: that empirical realism that, disdaining frills of style and "spiritual" grace notes, tried in all its sharpness (and, occasionally, bluntness) to engage the material world as an end in itself. Later figures in this line would be John James Audubon and Thomas Eakins. But Copley was the first. He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity. He did not edit out the warts and wens, the pinched...
Cottrell took up the study of birds and volunteered for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he worked untill 1988. He was a director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and served as an editor of James Lee Peters Checklist of Birds of the World...
Fred Baumgarten, Editor Audubon Activist National Audubon Society New York City...
...passed by Congress will never be fully implemented. It could preserve marine life, resurrect fishing and save tourism, but it depends on imposing-and funding-new regulations, and these may have been frozen by a sweeping congressional moratorium. Without the marine sanctuary, says Wayne Hoffman of the Florida Audubon Society, the future for the Keys is theme parks and casino boats...