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Robert Ridgway 



(Mount Carmel, 111., July 2, 1850 ) 



And first of all, it is a great pleasure to head the list with the greatest 

 and most productive systematic ornithologist that America has ever pro- 

 duced. Mt. Carmel, Illinois, where Mr. Ridgway was born, is so close 

 to the Indiana line that we may with propriety claim him as one of our own; 

 indeed, he was a resident of Wheatland, Knox County, Indiana, for some 

 years where he studied the birds and wrote much regarding them. Pro- 

 fessor Ridgway has contributed more than 500 papers, some of them formid- 

 able volumes of hundreds of pages, to the literature of ornithology and other 

 natural history subjects. Some of these deal directly or indirectly with the 

 avi-fauna of Indiana. His first paper, a note on the nesting habits of the 

 belted kingfisher, appeared in the American Naturalist for March, 1869, 

 after which followed numerous papers on the. birds of southeastern Illinois, 

 all of which were almost equally applicable to southwestern Indiana. 



Amos William Butler 



(Brookville, Ind., Oct. 1, 1860 ) 



We now come to the Father of the Ornithological Renaissance in Indiana, 

 the Father of the Indiana Academy of Science, our own distinguished and 

 much beloved Vice-President, Amos W. Butler, Mr. Butler has contributed 

 more to our knowledge of Indiana birds than all other writers combined. 

 His first paper, which appeared when he was scarcely more than 21 years 

 old, was a list of the birds of Franklin County, Indiana. This was in 1882, 

 some 13 years after the appearance of Dr. Haymond's list of birds of the same 

 county. Since 1882, numerous papers and reports on the ornithology of 

 Indiana have been published by Mr. Butler, as follows: Observations on 

 faunal changes, 1885; A list of the birds observed in Franklin County, In- 

 diana, 1886; The Cerulean warbler, 1884; Zoological Miscellany, 1887 and 

 1888; Notesontherangeof the prothonotary warbler in Indiana, 1888; A cata- 

 logue of the birds of Indiana, 1890: Our birds and what they do for the farmer, 

 1890; Notes on the range and habits of the Carolina parrakeet, 1892; Some 

 notes concerning the evening grosbeak, 1892; Notes on Indiana birds, 1891; 

 Further notes on the evening grosbeak, 1893; The range of the crossbills in 

 the Ohio valley, 1892; 1893 ; Bibliography of Indiana Ornithology, 1893; Notes 

 on Indiana birds, 1893; Notes on the birds of 1894; An orchard talk, 1895; 

 The Birds of Winona, 1895; Indiana; a century of changes in the aspects of 

 nature, 1895; Additional notes on Indiana birds, 1895; From wilderness to 

 civihzation, 1896; The Bobohnk in Indiana, 1896; Some additions to the 

 Indiana bird list, 1896; Notes on Indiana heronries, 1897; The recent oc- 

 currence of the raven in Indiana, 1897; The birds of Indiana, 1897; Brunnich's 

 Murre in Indiana, 1897; Bird life in Indiana, 1898; Notes on Indiana birds, 

 1899 ; Conditions affecting the distribution of birds in Indiana, 1903. 



