The Gull Volume 1-15. Golden Gate Audubon Society
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Author: Golden Gate Audubon Society
Page Count: 418 pages
Published Date: 18 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781236159489
File Name: The.Gull.Volume.1-15.pdf
Download Link: The Gull Volume 1-15
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...real live member. I remember he told me of puzzling over the identification of a female Passer Domesticus he discovered in Portsmouth Square; in time no bird lover came to know more or better than he, California's bird inhabitants, and I suspect that, could his bird notes be compiled, they would make up the best book for study and reference for bird-loving students. He was well equipped when he was duly elected to the Presidency of the Association, both as authority on the knowledge and on the protection of birds, the purpose of the Association, and with the executive ability required to shoulder practically all of its work; and I painfully admit that this would have ended but for him, while now that he, instead, has ended his work. The work that he had carried on will continue with the momentum he gave it, and thus may it deservingly preserve his spirit and memory. Sentimental was he; else he would not have loved the winged creatures, who, did they but know, would be among his real and chief mourners. But his was the sanely directed sentimentality guided by scientific knowledge of facts and practical viewing of conditions and with nothing of fanaticism that irritates, burns out, and nullifies its own efforts. The Audubon Association of the Pacific was never led to espouse a cause in preservation or conservation but that it stood firmly on as sound bases as ornithologists and naturalists establish through scientific investigations. My memories of his visits to my office are pleasant ones, where his earnestness was ever brightened by a cheerful happy remark, witty offspring of a happy heart and clear conscience, and his parting gesture was always a smile. America's aboriginal children pass out of this world into their Happy Hunting Ground. O Kibbe! I wish in...
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