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This book explores the life of Henry Dresser
(1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of
the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is
largely based on unpublished correspondence and diaries. Dresser
travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American
Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of
birds from Europe, North America and Asia, which formed the basis
of over 100 publications, including some of the finest bird books
of the late nineteenth century. Dresser was a leading figure in
scientific society and in the early bird conservation movement;
his correspondence and diaries reveal the inner workings,
motivations, personal relationships and rivalries that existed
among the leading ornithologists.