It is the only library in the world with the first two quartos of Hamlet ; it holds the manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, the first seven drafts of Henry David Thoreau's Walden, John James Audubon's Birds of America, a collection of manuscripts and first editions of the works of Charles Bukowski, and many other great treasures.

Audubon's final work, on mammals, was the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, prepared in collaboration with his good friend Rev John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina, who supplied much of the scientific text.

The work was completed by Audubon's sons and son-in-law and was published posthumously.

Audubon's International Alliances Program ( IAP ) brings together people throughout the Western Hemisphere to work together to implement conservation solutions at Important Birds Areas ( IBA's ).

Audubon's Important Bird Area program has been protecting 370 million acres along migratory bird flyways in the United States and is a key part of Audubon's work with BirdLife International and other conservationists around the globe.

Nature centers and wildlife sanctuaries continue to be an important part of Audubon's work to educate and inspire the public about the environment and how to conserve it.

Lansdowne's detailed watercolours of birds are similar in style to the work of John James Audubon-often featuring a specific species against a largely white background-but his subjects tend to display a greater lifelike quality and more natural postures than Audubon's.

It was based on Claude Rozier's buying half of Jean Audubon ’ s share of a plantation in Haiti, and lending money to the partnership as secured by half interest in lead mining at Audubon's property of Mill Grove.

Audubon's room was brimming with birds ' eggs, stuffed raccoons and opossums, fish, snakes, and other creatures.

Because rising tensions with the British resulted in President Jefferson's embargo of British trade, Audubon's business was not thriving.

Audubon's influence on ornithology and natural history was far reaching.

The average weight of these pigeons was 340 – 400 grams ( 12 – 14 oz ) and, per John James Audubon's account, length was 42 cm ( 16. 5 in ) in males and 38 cm ( 15 in ) in females.

Puffinus are the ' smaller ' Puffinus shearwaters ( Manx, Little and Audubon's Shearwaters, for example ), and the Neonectris are the ' larger ' Puffinus shearwaters ( Sooty Shearwaters, for example ); in 2004 it was proposed that Neonectris be split into its own genus, Ardenna.

The original watercolor was purchased from Audubon's destitute widow by The New York History Society where it remains to this day.

It was his meeting with Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky in 1810 which probably inspired the younger man to produce a book of his own bird illustrations, though Audubon's reaction to Wilson was decidedly ambiguous.

MacGillivray was a friend of American bird expert John James Audubon, and wrote a large part of Audubon's Ornithological Biographies from 1830-1839.

Audubon's first run-away success was Mac Ahlberg's I, a Woman ( U. S. 1966 ).

Mayo is best known as the joint author, with Baird and Ridgway, of A History of North American Birds ( 3 volumes, 1874 ), which was the first attempt since John James Audubon's ( thirty years prior ) to complete the study of American ornithology.

This passerine bird was long known to be closely related to its western counterpart, Audubon's Warbler, and at various times the two forms have been classed as separate species or grouped as Yellow-rumped Warblers, Dendroica coronata.

The Myrtle form was apparently separated from the others by glaciation during the Pleistocene, and the Audubon's form may have originated more recently through hybridization between the Myrtle Warbler and the Mexican nigrifrons form.

His first purchase was a complete copy of Audubon's The Birds of America for the then extraordinary sum of $ 970.

This individual was collected on May 11, 1833, by Audubon's colleague John Kirk Townsend in New Garden Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

No specific details are known about the Dickcissel's lipochrome metabolism ; it may be that it happens to be more fine-tuned than in other birds, so that most mutations therein will be lethal and Audubon's bird was simply one of the very few individuals that survived.

Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope ( 1853-69 ), which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's Birds of America.

Until recently, that species was considered conspecific with Audubon's Shearwater.

The first volume purchased by the library was John James Audubon's Birds of America, acquired in 1838 for $ 970.

Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.

While there, he met the naturalist and physician Charles-Marie D ' Orbigny, who improved Audubon's taxidermy skills and taught him scientific methods of research.

The War of 1812 upset Audubon's plans to move his business to New Orleans.

( Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist, and after they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in Natchez, Mississippi during January – March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.

* The Audubon Museum at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky houses many of Audubon's original watercolors, oils, engravings and personal memorabilia.

John James Audubon's son reported seeing a nest belonging to the species in Labrador, but it is uncertain where it bred.

Boone's family insisted he never returned to Kentucky after 1799, although some historians believe Boone visited his brother Squire near Kentucky in 1810 and have therefore reported Audubon's story as factual.

Between 1803 and 1806 Mill Grove and its surrounding fields and woodlands first inspired young Audubon's passion for painting and drawing birds.

Little Tobago and St. Giles Island are important seabird nesting colonies, with Red-billed Tropicbird, Magnificent Frigatebird and Audubon's Shearwater amongst others.

The wooded slopes of Washington Heights seen from a sandy cove on the Hudson as they were about 1845 are illustrated in a canvas by John James Audubon's son, Victor Clifford Audubon, conserved by the Museum of the City of New York.

* The first volume of John James Audubon's 10-volume The Birds of America is published.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the term in an English source is in John W. Audubon's Western Journal of 1849 ; Audubon recalls that he and his associates were derided and called " Gringoes " while passing through the town of Cerro Gordo, Veracruz.

* Patrikeev, Michael, Jack C. Eitniear, Scott M. Werner, Paul C. Palmer ( 2008 ) Interactions and Hybridization between Altamira and Audubon's Orioles in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Birding 40 ( 2 ): 42-6

and it gave Miriam Noel a fund of energy like that of a person inspired to complete some great and universal work of art.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Toward the end of the semester's work, he interviewed every married class member at great length.

Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.

This means that a great many academically talented girls are discouraged from pursuing graduate work of a more demanding nature.

It is significant that the Catskills, which used to be the summer playground for older teen-agers, a kind of summer suburb of New York, no longer attracts them in great numbers -- except for those who work there as waiters, bus boys, or counselors in the day camps.

Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.

It had come as no great surprise to Matson that the hot water in the showers didn't work, that Loren Severe had thrown up all over the stairs, or that some thieving bastard of a cop had walked off with his cigarettes.

It makes my work a great deal easier to be able to pray for the Lord's guidance while ministering to the physical needs of my patients.

It combines qualities that are seldom found in one work: Scrupulous scholarship, a fund of personal experience, a sense of drama and characterization and a broad grasp of the era's great historical issues.

His chief work on penance, the Liber poenitenitalis dedicated to Henry de Sully, exercised great influence on the many manuals of penance produced as a result of the Fourth Lateran Council.

His work is marked by great elegance and an awareness of geometrical principles in design.

He was essentially a theorist, and his great merit lay in the capacity of taking over experimental work that others had carried out — without always adequately recognizing their claims — and by a rigorous logical procedure, reinforced by his own quantitative experiments, of expounding the true explanation of the results.

He now contemplated a great work, a colossal statue of Religion.

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

The later Neapolitan operas ( L ' amor volubile e tiranno 1709 ; La principessa fedele 1710 ; Tigrane, 1714, & c .) are showy and effective rather than profoundly emotional ; the instrumentation marks a great advance on previous work, since the main duty of accompanying the voice is thrown upon the string quartet, the harpsichord being reserved exclusively for the noisy instrumental ritornelli.

However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.

This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.

A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.

She studied book illustration from a young age and developed her own tastes, but the work of the picture book triumvirate Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, the last an illustrator whose work was later collected by her father, was a great influence.