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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British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. 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.

Ornithology. --- Ornithologists. --- Birds --- Birds. --- SCIENCE --- Ornithology --- Ornithologists --- Naturalists --- Zoologists --- Avian biology --- Zoology --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Collection and preservation. --- Life Sciences --- General. --- Nomenclature. --- Classification. --- History --- Dresser, H. E. --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Dresser, Henry Eeles --- Dresser, Henry Eeles, --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- American Civil War. --- English ornithologists. --- Henry Dresser. --- History of the Birds of Europe. --- Museum studies. --- Richard Sharpe. --- Scientific societies. --- Victorian ornithology. --- Victorian studies. --- Zoological Society of London. --- bird collecting. --- bird specimens. --- birds. --- cabinet collecting. --- environmental geography. --- exploration. --- field collecting. --- history of science. --- natural history. --- ornithology.