Natural History - Potomac River Plummers Island - Washington DC Biologists Club

by Matthew C. Perry

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Natural History - Washington DC Biologists Club - Potomac River Plummers Island The Washington Biologists’ Field Club: Its Members and Its History (1900–2006), edited by Matthew C. Perry. Comprehensive and fascinating institutional history of the Washington Biologists’ Field Club, one of the most important scientific and natural history organizations associated with Washington, D.C., American biology, conservation, taxonomy, ecology, ornithology, botany, zoology, and environmental research in the twentieth century. Founded in 1900 and incorporated in 1901, the Club became closely associated with Plummers Island on the Potomac River, a renowned biological field research site located near the American Legion Bridge on the Maryland side of the river just outside Washington, D.C. This substantial scholarly volume documents more than a century of biological science, field studies, conservation efforts, and scientific fellowship involving researchers connected with the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, Wildlife Management Institute, National Zoological Park, Chesapeake Bay Center, National Herbarium, The Wilderness Society, Wildlife Society, and numerous federal scientific agencies and universities throughout the District of Columbia region. Includes detailed club history, biographies of members, historical photographs, scientific pu

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