Information about Charles Johnson Maynard
Charles Johnson Maynard (1845-1929) was an American naturalist and ornithologist born in Newton, Massachusetts. He was a collector and taxidermist. He was an expert on the vocal organs of birds.
He self-published many books, unusual for the period because they contained colour plates produced by a process that Maynard invented.
Maynard named the Caribbean subspecies of the Osprey, Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi, for another American ornithologist, Robert Ridgway
He self-published many books, unusual for the period because they contained colour plates produced by a process that Maynard invented.
Maynard named the Caribbean subspecies of the Osprey, Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi, for another American ornithologist, Robert Ridgway
Selected publications
- The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history, with a complete catalogue of the birds of eastern Massachusetts (1870)
- The birds of eastern North America (1881)
- The naturalist's guide in collecting and preserving objects of natural history (1887)
- A field ornithology of the birds of eastern North America (1916)
- Directory to the birds of eastern North America, illustrated with many wood cuts and ... plates drawn and engraved by the author (1907)
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Natural history or (in Latin) Naturalis Historia is the scientific study of plants or animals.
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Natural History may also refer to:
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- Natural History (Pliny), Naturalis Historia
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Ornithology (from Greek: ορνισ, ornis, "bird"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of birds.
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Newton, Massachusetts
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Nickname: The Garden City
Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
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Nickname: The Garden City
Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts
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Country United States
State
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Taxidermy (Greek for "the arrangement of the skin") is the art of mounting or reproducing animals for display (e.g. as hunting trophies) or for study. Taxidermy can be done on all species of animals.
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Caribbean (Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Spanish: Caribe
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Pandionidae
Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Genus: Pandion
Savigny, 1809
Species: P.
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Sclater & Salvin, 1873
Genus: Pandion
Savigny, 1809
Species: P.
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Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist.
Born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, Ridgway was a protege of zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird, who, on becoming the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, appointed Ridgway the first
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Born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, Ridgway was a protege of zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird, who, on becoming the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, appointed Ridgway the first
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