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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | "Oologically, T. G. Pearson, Archer, Fla." (1873-1891) | 7 |
| 2 | A Union of Ornithologists (1891) | 18 |
| 3 | "Oh fashion! how many crimes are done in thy name!" (1891-1893) | 33 |
| 4 | "The Birds Our Friends" (1893-1897) | 44 |
| 5 | "A thousand impressions" (1897-1898) | 56 |
| 6 | "Life on the Holiday Campus" (1898-1899) | 66 |
| 7 | "There are a great many things to know" (1899-1901) | 79 |
| 8 | The Audubon Society of North Carolina (1901-1902) | 88 |
| 9 | National Recognition (1902) | 100 |
| 10 | The Audubon Law: Good Birds, Bad Birds, Game Birds (1902-1903) | 108 |
| 11 | The South's First State Wildlife Commission (1903-1904) | 119 |
| 12 | The Money in Game (1904) | 133 |
| 13 | The National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (1904-1905) | 140 |
| 14 | Pearson Labors, Willcox Bequeaths (1905-1906) | 153 |
| 15 | Defending the Audubon Society and Saving the Biological Survey (1907) | 161 |
| 16 | South Carolina and Georgia (1907-1908) | 173 |
| 17 | Birds and the "Conservation Movement": Vainly Seeking Equal Status (1908-1909) | 182 |
| 18 | The South's First State Wildlife Commission Eviscerated (1909) | 192 |
| 19 | New York (1909-1910) | 206 |
| 20 | When Wildlife Protectors Quarrel (1910-1911) | 219 |
| 21 | In New York to Stay (1911) | 233 |
| Notes | 241 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 271 | |
| Index | 285 |
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James Ferguson
reviewed Saving American Birds: T. Gilbert Pearson and the Founding of the Audubon Movement on June 20, 2019
Saving American Birds: T. Gilbert Pearson and the Founding of the Audubon Movement
A fun read on an important and underappreciated scientist, though I wish it'd focused more on the African Exploration and Hereditary Genius portions of Galton's life and less on the petty drama and infighting within the various scientific societies Galton participated in.
For those unaware: Galton was immensely important in the early days of Behavioral Genetics (with early forerunners of twins studies, adoption studies, and pedigree analysis in his work on genetics), served on the Royal Commission on Meteorology, explored Africa and made some important contribution to the knowledge of it's geography, played a key role in bringing fingerprinting to the attention of police as a means of identifying and tracking criminals, and as a scientific mentor, influenced Karl Pearson and others important in some of the most important work on evolutionary biology.
A true Victorian polymath, eccentric in some entertaining ways (he loved to quantify everything, so he invented a handheld counter that let him discreetly tally things up: when he wanted to count the number of pretty women in a room, the number of yawns a given lecturer produced in an audience, and more) and in some unintended ways, the intellectual justification for eugenics (because he correctly pointed out the impact of gens on behavior/intelligence), and as a by-product, the horrors of the early 20th's century worst excesses-- forced sterilization in the US, Nazism in Germany, etc.
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Add Saving American Birds: T. Gilbert Pearson and the Founding of the Audubon Movement, A captivating account of one of the neglected pioneers of the conservation movement . . . and an insight into attitudes we must update if we are to adapt to the environmental realities of the twenty-first century.--Roland C. Clement, past president, Nat, Saving American Birds: T. Gilbert Pearson and the Founding of the Audubon Movement to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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