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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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476 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Fellows, limited to 25, and elected on account of their eminence as ornitholo- gists; and (b) Corresponding Fellows, limited to 100. Fellows and Members are residents of the United States and Canada; Associ- ates, of any part of America; and Honorary or Corresponding Fellows, of any country. The other two groups comprise Fellows who, no longer active, have been transferred to the class of Ee- tired Fellows, and Patrons, in- cluding persons who, desirous of furthering the aims of the Union, contrib- ute the sum of $1000 for such purpose. This group as its name indicates is intended to dis- tinguish those members who by their breadth of view and inter- est in the sub- ject make pos- sible the ad- vancement of ornithology either in the fields of research or in applied science.^
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Spencer FuUerton Baird,-after a crayon jiortrait by Henry Ulke, in 1883, the year of the organiza- tion of the A. O. U. Baird was a man of won- derful ability. He was a friend of Audubon, and his collection of birds afterward formed the nucleus of the National Museum coUection. He acted as secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- tion from 1878 to 1887 and was the organizer of the United States National Museum and of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. He was the author of Birds of North America, Review of American Birds, and (witli Brewer and Ridgway) of five volumes on tlu- land and water birds of North America The list of members includes many of the most eminent ornithologists in this country and abroad, while among the names of members now deceased may be found those of many well- k n o w n m e n whose works live after the m. Among the lat- ter are George N". Lawrence and Spencer F. Baird, the lead- i ng American or- nithologists of their day, whose best work was (lone about the middle of the nineteenth cen- tury ; and Coues, Bendire, Merrill, and Mearns whose names re- call the valuable contributions to ornithology made by oflficers of the Army. Among the Honorary Fellows may be found the names of Huxley, Scla- ter, Sharpe, and Wallace, known the world over wherever the studv of birds has received attention. The business of the Union is con- ducted by the president, two vice-presi- dents, a secretary, treasurer, and a council of seven members. Oflficers and ex-presidents are ex officio members of the council, and the editor of the jour- -This portrait of Professor Baird, made in 1883, is apparently an unpublished one and historically correct for the date. At this time he was sixty, and evidently showed his age, for this was only two years before his health broke down and only four years before his deatli. Compare with the picture in the large group (page 474) which is the standard and undoubtedly the best picture of Baird and is from a photograph taken about 1875 by Mr. T. W. Smillie, photographer of the U. S. National Museum. Baird, then fifty-two years old, was in the height of his vigor, planning for the exhibit in the Centennial E.xposition, which was made the stepping stone to the foundation of the National Museum, the ambition of his life. An interesting point is that the Smillie photograph faces to the left while the Ulke pictures (of which the writer has seen two) face to tlie riglit. ^ No initiation fee is required and the annual dues are $5 for Fellows, $4 for Members, and $3 for Associates. Life membership securing exemp- tion from further assessment may be obtained upon payment of $100 by a Fellow, $75 by a Member, or $50 by an Associate. Patrons and Retired, Honorary, or Corresponding Fellows are exemjJt from dues and all classes of members except Corre- sponding Fellows receive the journal free.

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