I spotted this on the ExLibris list and thought that HIST-NAT-HIST
subscribers would want to know about it.
Karen
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:22:59 -0700
>From: "Lewis, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Color dictionaries and Robert Ridgway biography
>
>Hi all -- I'd like to announce a new book I've just published, which
>contains detailed information on a pair of color dictionaries that
>have been of interest to bibliophiles for many years. The book is a
>biography of Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian's first Curator of
>Birds, and it's just officially in print and available as of this
>week (despite the out-of-date pub date on the Amazon page for the
>book). It's called "The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the
>Modern Study of Birds." Here's the link to the book from the
>publisher's web site (Yale):
>http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300175523. I
>have an entire chapter on Ridgway's two color dictionaries -- the
>first published by Little, Brown in 1886 and the second
>self-published in 1912. I also have a full chapter on Ridgway's
>other publications, most notably his work Birds of North and Middle
>America, which was an eleven-volume opus. I hope it's of rare
>bookish interest to many. -Dan Lewis
>
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>Daniel Lewis, Ph.D.
>Dibner Senior Curator, History of Science & Technology
>The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
>1151 Oxford Road
>San Marino, CA 91108
>626-405-2206
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Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS [log in to unmask]
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