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Amateurs and specialists studying birds by the end of the 19th hundred years were a contentious, keen group with goals that intersected, collided, and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Powered by a want to advance technology, as well as by ego, take great pride in, honor, insecurity, religion and other clashing sensibilities, they battled to soak up the implications of evolution after Darwin. In the process, they considerably reshaped the analysis of wild birds. Daniel Lewis here explores the professionalization of ornithology through one of its key figures: Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of wild birds and one of North America's most important natural scientists. Exploring a world in which the uses of dialect, classification and accountability between amateurs and specialists played essential roles, Lewis offers a stunning benefits to Ridgway and shows how his work fundamentally inspired the route of North american and international ornithology. He explores the internal workings of the Smithsonian and the role of enthusiasts working in the field and unveils previously unknown information on the ornithological journal The Auk and the untold storyline of the colour dictionaries that Ridgway is well known.
