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...welcomed news of the Des Plaines Valley experiment. Mosquito control was the subject of the conference's bitterest debate. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of Eastern and Southern States, which end-to-end would belt the world almost 2½ times, have dried away vegetation, starved wildlife. Said Audubon Societies' William Vogt: "Intelligently conceived, expertly prosecuted, adequately maintained, and completely justified mosquito control is as rare as the Eskimo curlew...
...Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) inherited a tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West...
...anatomical inaccuracies: his horned owl represented with three rather than two toes forward. They criticize his romantic cloud effects. They pointedly praise the correctness of his contemporaries, men primarily ornithologists like American Museum's Francis Lee Jaques. British Columbia's crack rifle shot Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird...
...fruits of Audubon's hard work were bitterly attacked by contemporaries-by art critics like William Dunlap, by jealous naturalists like Alexander Wilson. Neither artists nor scientists liked or trusted his unseemly wedding of science with art; both avowed the result was properly neither. Audubon, who thought of himself as first a backwoodsman, then an artist, did not live to hear their paltry jibes drowned in the ringing praise a nation so often belatedly bestows on its foremost citizens...
...American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child...