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Alexander Wilson. Photo taken by Sammy Luo in Stanford, CA. This site was last updated on May 27, 2024. It was created using Jekyll with interactive components running on p5.js. About me I am a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College. I received my PhD from Dartmouth College advised by Rosa Orellana. My research is in combinatorial ...
24 de jun. de 2013 · Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson’s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson’s ...
4 de abr. de 2019 · Iain Glen, Ruth Wilson and Anna Symon discuss the mysterious, real-life character of Alexander Wilson, and the secretive life he led.
Alexander Wilson was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. Under his own name and the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney, he penned 24 novels between 1928 and 1940.He wrote a further four unpublished novels and his last spy short story was published in a Faber & Faber collection My Best Spy Story in 1955.
Alexander Wilson, Scottish poet and Father of American Ornithology, was a child of the Enlightenment. Like Rousseau he saw in wilderness a natural order to be enjoyed and observed, not an alien world to be feared and conquered. He was an observant teenager whose poetry portrayed Scotland and its people with remarkable insight.
Alexander Wilson: Enlightened Naturalist recovers Wilson’s literary, artistic and musical pursuits, and the cultural contexts of his life in the Scotland of Robert Burns. It also explores Wilson’s scientific and philosophic contribution to American ornithology in American Ornithology ; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United ...
Alexander Wilson's Redhead. The notion that Alexander Wilson's "spark bird" was a red-headed woodpecker he collected on landing in the New World in 1794 is likely a fiction, part of George Ord's efforts to establish Wilson as "the" American ornithologist. Redhead (Aythya americana). In J. Kear (ed.) Bird Families of the World: Ducks, Geese ...
