From Natural History to Avian Biology: Canadian Ornithology, 1860-1950

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From Natural History to Avian Biology: Canadian Ornithology, 1860-1950
Abstract
An examination of development of Canadian ornithology from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. The author claims that the institutional development of ornithology in Canada during the nineteenth century was much retarded by the prevailing utilitarian attitude towards science with its lack of funding for fundamental research. It was not until the second decade of the twentieth century that ornithology became part of the scientific establishment of the Canadian government. Despite this, she argues, Canadian ornithologists, in face of considerable difficulties stemming from the lack of encouragement and financial support, pursued pioneering studies in migration, behaviour and population biology of birds. Among the early pioneers was Dr. Archibald Hall (1812-1868), a Montreal-born physician, educator and editor who studied birds in the Montreal region in the 1830s, and Henry George Vennor (1840-1884), a graduate of McGill University's School of Engineering and Surveying, who published in 1876 a book titled Our Birds of Prey, illustrated with photographs by Montreal photographer William Notman.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
1985
# of Pages
viii-337p.
Language
en
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Citation
Ainley, Marianne Gosztonyi. “From Natural History to Avian Biology: Canadian Ornithology, 1860-1950.” PhD dissertation, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=71808&silo_library=GEN01.
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