A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology After Audubon.(Review)

From: Wilson Bulletin | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: Bock, Walter J. | Copyright information

By Mark V. Barrow, Jr. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 1998:326 pp., 33 unnumbered text figures. ISBN 0-691-04402-3. $39.50 (cloth). - Histories of ornithology, and especially of American ornithology are rare and those by professional historians of science are rarer still as shown by a perusal of the bibliography of this excellent new book by Mark Barrow. Barrow's A Passion for Birds does not provide such a complete history of North American ornithology as this w...

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