Record Unit 7110 - Baird Ornithological Club of Washington, D.C., Records, 1922-1949

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Record Unit 7110
Baird Ornithological Club of Washington, D.C.,
Records, 1922-1949

Introduction

Historical Note

Descriptive Entry

INTRODUCTION

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HISTORICAL NOTE

The Baird Ornithological Club was founded in 1922 by a group of Washington ornithologists for the advancement of Ornithological knowledge, and the furtherance of good fellowship among the members. The founders of the Club were: William Bonar Bell, Albert Kenrick Fisher, Henry Corbin Fuller, Edward Alphonso Goldman, Walter Cleaveland Henderson, Ned Hollister, Arthur H. Howell, Hartley H. T. Jackson, Edwin R. Kalmbach, Frederick C. Lincoln, Waldo Lee McAtee, Edward William Nelson, Harry Church Oberholser, Theodore Sherman Palmer, Edward Alexander Preble, Charles Wallace Richmond, Joseph H. Riley, Leonhard Stejneger, Bradshaw Hall Swales, Alexander Wetmore, and Robert White Williams.

Group Photo, 108th Meeting, 1948

Group Photo, 108th Meeting, 1948

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

These records include minutes of the Club's meetings which were held several times each year. Meetings of the Club were not just meetings of a board, but also rather informal meetings of the membership. The minutes of the meetings often record discussions being carried on by members or guests.

Box 1 of 1

Minutes of Meetings, 1922-1943, 1948-1949 (no meetings were held from 1944-1948), 2 volumes
Constitution and By-Laws
List of Members, 1949
Reminiscences of Spencer F. Baird by Albert Kenrick Fisher, William H. Dall, C. Hart Merriam, and Leonhard Stejneger
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1928-1948
Photographs:
Mrs. Bradshaw Hall Swales, 1945;
Group photograph taken at the 108th meeting of the Baird Ornithological Club, January 14, 1948. Included in the photograph are: John Warren Aldrich, Paul Bartsch, Clarence Cottam, Herbert Girton Deignan, Herbert Friedmann, Hartley H.T. Jackson, Frederick C. Lincoln, William M. Mann, Francis Morey Uhler, Ernest Pillsbury Walker, Alexander Wetmore.

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