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Audubon and Early
Early in the 20th century, part of the park became home to the Audubon Zoo.

Audubon and Drawings
* John James Audubon, Writings & Drawings ( Christoph Irmscher, ed.

Audubon and Richard
* John James Audubon, The Audubon Reader ( Richard Rhodes, ed.
Later during the 19th century, other notable naturalists and scientists, including John James Audubon, Charles S. Boyer, John Cassin, Edward Drinker Cope, Ezra Townsend Cresson, Richard Harlan, Ferdinand V. Hayden, Isaac Lea, John Lawrence LeConte, Joseph Leidy, Samuel Morton, George Ord, and James Rehn were also members.
* Barbara and Richard Mearns, Audubon to Xantus, The Lives of Those Commemorated in North American Bird Names, ISBN 0-12-487423-1
* Audubon to Xánthus, Barbara and Richard Mearns ISBN 0-12-487423-1

Audubon and Scott
It was frequented by notables such as Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, and John James Audubon.
* Audubon ( Scott County, Kentucky ), house

Audubon and V
Audubon is the home of three Medal of Honor recipients, the most awarded per capita of any town in the United States: Samuel M. Sampler ( World War I ), Edward Clyde Benfold ( Korean War ) and Nelson V. Brittin ( Korean War ).
* Barrow, Mark V. A passion for Birds: American ornithology after Audubon.

Audubon and .
By comparison, Stone Harbor bird sanctuary's allies seem less formidable, for aside from the Audubon Society, they are mostly the snowy, common and cattle egrets and the Louisiana, green, little blue and black-crowned herons who nest and feed there.
Other memberships include the American Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Baltimore Watercolor Society.
Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today.
Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy its target, the fire ant.
The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.
:* Orlando has a boutique Bastille Day street festival that began in 2009 in the Audubon Park Garden District and involves champagne, wine, music, petanque, artists, and street performers.
In the mid-1800s, John James Audubon and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, calling it the " Chipping Squirrel Hackee.
Some resemble the old U. S. conservation movement-whose modern expression is the Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and National Geographic Society-American organizations with a worldwide influence.
Conservationists organized the National Parks Conservation Association, the Audubon Society, and other groups that still remain active.
* 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
The company brushed aside pleas from four Southern governors and the National Audubon Society that the tract be publicly purchased and set aside as a reserve, and clearcut the forest.
He supported the ornithologist John James Audubon, the poet / writer Edgar Allan Poe, and the presidential campaign of Henry Clay.
John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.
Audubon identified 25 new species and a number of new sub-species.
Jean-Jacques Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue ( now Haiti ) on his father's sugar plantation.
Following Jeanne Rabin's death, Jean Audubon renewed his relationship with Sanitte and had another daughter by her, named Rose.
The senior Audubon had risen from his early days as a cabin boy, and commanded ships.
During the American Revolution, the father Jean Audubon had been imprisoned by the British Empire.
Rising unrest in Saint-Domingue from African slaves, who greatly outnumbered French colonists, convinced Jean Audubon to return to France, where he became a member of the Republican Guard.
The children were raised in Couëron, near Nantes, France, by Audubon and his wife Anne Moynet Audubon, whom he had married years before.
They renamed the boy Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon.

Audubon and Edwards
According to Edwards, he was also active as a member of several environmental groups such as the Sierra Club ( which published one of his books ,) and the Audubon Society .< ref >

Audubon and Harvard
* The John James Audubon Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Anne Gordon Audubon Calabresi ( Anne Calabresi Oldshue ), a psychiatrist, graduated cum laude from Yale, attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University and completed residency at Harvard.

Audubon and University
*" Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Collection ", Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, Auburn University
* The Burrowing Owl is the official mascot for the intercollegiate athletic teams of Florida Atlantic University, as the campus is a National Audubon Society designated burrowing owl sanctuary.
The University of Glasgow, which owns a copy of the work describes John Gould as ‘ the greatest figure in bird illustration after Audubon ’, and auctioneers ‘ Sotherans Co .’ describe ‘ Birds of Great Britain ’ as ‘ Gould's pride and joy ’.
In 1992, Columbia University began the process of demolishing the Audubon Ballroom and replacing it with the Audubon Business and Technology Center, a university-related biotechnology research park that is a public-private partnership between Columbia University Medical Center and the New York state and city governments.
Under the agreement, the University restored a portion of the original façade of the Audubon Ballroom and built a museum inside to honor Malcolm X.
Stahr retired from Indiana University in 1968, accepting the presidency of the National Audubon Society.
Over the last 20 years almost every residential building in Kenmore has been purchased by Boston University and turned into dorms, especially in the Audubon Circle area between Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue.
In the " Source to Sea expedition " of 2005, two students from North Carolina State University paddled down the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers to support the Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign.
To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editor.
# A Special Place-Professor Sir Alec Jeffries of Leicester University in England develops DNA profiling and schlieren photography used by Theodore von Karman to study aerodynamics and Anthony Fokker's airborne machine guns and the Red Baron and geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen and Johann Gottfried Herder's Romantic ideas that start in Italy and paintings of actors and lighthouses and the War of Jenkins ' Ear and Spanish gold and Alexander Monro and William Cheselden's skeleton drawings and astronomical poetry by friends of fishing affiscinados who write books and Charles Cotton and skeptical wine-drinkers called Michel Eyquem, and Edward Jenner's cure for smallpox and J. J. Audubon and American bird painters and devious Russian real estate deals, --- and as a result in 1872, America gets a special place, the first national park, Yellowstone.
One of the fountains at Audubon Park with Tulane University in the background.

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