Identifier: birdlore141912nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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during the last years of hislife. Madame Audubon, the widow of thenaturalist, and her two sons and theirfamilies, occupied two of the houses onthis estate, and in one of these MadameAudubon conducted a school for smallchildren, which Mr. Grinnell attended. He has told us something of the con-ditions of this early boyhood life. Thewalls of the Audubon home were decoratedwith antlers, from which hung guns, shot-pouches and powder-flasks. Portraits andpaintings of birds and mammals, done bythe naturalist and his sons, were seenevery where. The loft of John WoodhouseAudubons barn, where the boys oftenplayed, contained great stacks of the oldred muslin-bound copies of the Ornitholog-ical Biographies, while against the wallswere piled boxes of bird skins broughtback by the naturalist from his variousexpeditions. John W. Audubon was con-stantly receiving boxes of specimens fromdistant parts of the continent, and oftenwhen he opened these shipments, he wassurrounded by a group of small boys,
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UliOKGK lUKIi (.KINM;!.!.(78) The Audubon Societies 79 I who stared in wonder at the strangecreatures that he drew forth and held upfor their inspection. The associations of Audubon Park thusgave Mr. Grinnell an interest in birds andtheir ways which grew with his growth,and it cannot be doubted that it was theinfluence of these surroundings which,years afterward, led him to name the bird-protective society which he founded TheAudubon Society. After graduation from Yale, in 1870Mr. Grinnell went to the then Far Westas one of a scientific expedition, headed bythe great paleontologist, Professor O. C.Marsh, to collect vertebrate fossils, and alittle later he went to New Haven, Con-necticut, to become an assistant to Pro-fessor Marsh in the Peabody Museumof Yale, where he worked for years onvertebrate fossils. In 1879, his health broke down, andit became necessary to seek a change ofwork. He was chosen President of theForest and Stream Publishing Company,where, until a few months, he has

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