The Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
will be the site of two upcoming author talks (with book signings) that may
interest birders:
next Wednesday, 9 May, at 5:30 pm:
Joy Kiser on "America's Other Audubon," her account of "Illustrations of the
Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio" that includes reproductions of all 68 color
lithographs from that 1886 volume (of which only 90 copies were completed). A
few more details on the book are available at
http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890599
Thursday, 17 May at 12:00 noon:
Dan Lewis on his "The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of
Birds." Lewis places the life and work of the Smithsonian's first full-time
curator of birds (who began his career at age 16, when he joined Clarence
King's post-Civil War Survey of the 40th Parallel) in the context of the shift
from amateur to professional ornithology. A bit more on the book is at
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300175523. ;
Sherman Suter
Alexandria VA 22307 / Port Republic MD 20676
