Book

Merchant, Carolyn, author.

Spare the birds! : George Bird Grinnell and the first Audubon Society / Carolyn Merchant.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]

©2016

xiii, 328 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-314) and index.

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938.

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.

Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813.

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938.

Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813.

National Audubon Society -- History.

National Audubon Society.

Birds -- Conservation -- United States -- History.

Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography.

Birds -- Conservation.

Ornithologists.

History.

Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938, author.

George Bird Grinnell and the first Audubon Society

Part I. George Bird Grinnell's Audubon Society. 1. Lucy and John James Audubon's influence on Grinnell ; 2. Grinnell's Audubon Society -- Part II. George Bird Grinnell's writings on John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson in The Audubon magazine. 3. Introduction to Grinnell's writings ; 4. The life of John James Audubon / George Bird Grinnell ; 5. The character of John James Audubon / George Bird Grinnell ; 6. Incidents of Audubon's life / George Bird Grinnell ; 7. Audubonian sketches / R[obert] W. Shufeldt ; 8. Biography of Alexander Wilson / George Bird Grinnell -- Part III. Grinnell's monthly birds in The Audubon magazine, 1887-1889. 9. Introduction to Grinnell's monthly birds ; 10. Grinnell's monthly birds. I ; 11. Grinnell's monthly birds. II -- Epilogue: Grinnell's achievements -- Appendixes. 1. Other early and recent biographies of Audubon ; 2. Producing Audubon's Birds of America and Grinnell's monthly birds ; 3. Timeline: Alexander Wilson ; 4. Timeline: John James Audubon and Lucy Bakewell Audubon ; 5. Timeline: George Bird Grinnell.

2016933636

0300215452

9780300215458

1

0

1201229

939994065

1