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| Formation | 1873 |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | Ornithology Bird Conservation |
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| Affiliations | American Ornithologists' Union Harvard University |
| Website | www |
The Nuttall Ornithological Club is the oldest ornithology organization in the United States. [1] [2]
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The club initially was a small informal group of William Brewster's childhood friends, all of whom shared his interest in ornithology. These friends included Daniel Chester French, Ruthven Deane and Henry Henshaw. In 1872, Henshaw suggested that the group meet on a regular weekly schedule at Brewster's house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [3] On November 17, 1873, the group, which had expanded to include Henry Augustus Purdie, William Earl Dodge Scott, Francis P. Atkinson, Harry Balch Bailey, Ernest Ingersoll, and Walter Woodman, met to formally establish the first American ornithological club. [4] They named their club after the botanist and zoologist Thomas Nuttall [1] [5] [6] who published the first field guide for North American birds, Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada (1832).
By 1876 the club determined to publish the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, which was the first purely ornithological journal, under the joint editorship of Charles Johnson Maynard and Henry Augustus Purdie. However, after one issue, Maynard and Purdie were removed as editors and Joel Asaph Allen, who had recently joined the club, became the sole editor-in-chief. [4]
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, was a member of the club, [7] one of only a few presidents who published papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. [8] Roger Tory Peterson, author of the Peterson field guides. [1]
Elliott Ladd Coues was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist, and author. He led surveys of the Arizona Territory, and later as secretary of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. He founded the American Ornithological Union in 1883, and was editor of its publication, The Auk.
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William Brewster was an American ornithologist. He co-founded the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and was an early naturalist and conservationist.
Henry Wetherbee Henshaw was an American ornithologist and ethnologist. He worked at the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology from 1888 to 1892 and was editor of the journal American Anthropologist.
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Charles Johnson Maynard was an American naturalist and ornithologist born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was a collector, a taxidermist, and an expert on the vocal organs of birds. In addition to birds, he also studied mollusks, moss, gravestones and insects. He lived in the house at 459 Crafts Street in Newton, Massachusetts, built in 1897 and included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as the Charles Maynard House. The Charles Johnson Maynard Award is given out by the Newton Conservators, Inc.
Charles Foster Batchelder was an American ornithologist and naturalist. He was an early member and President of the American Ornithologists' Union, and of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. He also edited The Auk, and before it, the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.
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Aaron Ludwig Kumlien was an American ornithologist and the oldest son of Thure Kumlien. He took part in the Howgate Polar Expedition 1877-78 and collected a large number of bird specimens which led to the discovery of several new species including what is now known as Kumlien's gull.
Winfrid Alden Stearns was an American naturalist, specimen collector, and writer who took an interest in the birds of Labrador and also wrote on the birds of New England.
... William Brewster, cofounder of the Nuttall Ornithological Club in 1873, which spawned all of the nation's birding associations.(subscription required)
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