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Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology
By Burtt, Edward H. & William E. Davis
- ISBN
- 9780674072558 9780674073739
- Publisher
- Belknap: Harvard Univ.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2013 | Science and Technology
A Scottish emigré, Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) became the preeminent ornithologist of early America. His systematic approach to the study of birds and his nine-volume American Ornithology (1808–14) greatly influenced John James Audubon, in whose shadow Wilson has since remained. In the first Wilson biography since The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson, edited by Clark Hunter (1983), Burtt (zoology, Ohio Wesleyan Univ.) and Davis (Professor Emeritus, Boston Univ.) describe Wilson's mentoring by such pr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
