"During my first year at Harvard, in 1928, I became fascinated with the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. How exciting for a mere freshman to meet and talk to such famous ornithologists as . ... In succeeding years Griscom, aided by , who was just bringing out his first bird guide, became the great figure who built up the type of —pretty much limited to finding rarities, listing species seen, and census taking—that has now become a national pastime. I remember arguments about this new approach to birding back then. The clincher for the Grissom-Peterson type of birding was that it was competitive. ... By the time I was a junior at Harvard I found my interest in this type of birding wearing thin."
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Lawrence Kilham
(August 10, 1910 – September 21, 2000) was an American physician, distinguished virologist, medical school professor, amateur ornithologist, and nature writer. He was elected in 1974 a fellow of the and was awarded in 1989 the for his 1988 book On Watching Birds.
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