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John L. Ridgway  Robert Ridgway The handsome chromolithographs below are by Robert and John Livzey Ridgway Report upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881. Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) was one America's leading ornithologists. At the age of 17, he was appointed zoologist on a geological survey of the 40th parallel. From 1874 until his death in 1929, he served as ornithologist and curator of the Smithsonian Institute. Ridgway established a system of color standards and nomenclature that is still used today. Robert's younger brother John was chief illustrator for United States Geological Survey and an artist for the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Institution of Washington. Size: 11.5 x 9 inches |
