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Article: John Abbot's Birds of Georgia: Selected Drawings from the Houghton Library, Harvard University.(Review)
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- Wilson Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Wilson Ornithological Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction and commentary by Vivian Rogers-Price. Beehive Press, Savannah, Georgia. 1997: vii-xlii, 25 color plates and facing-page commentary, unnumbered and unpaginated. $125 (cloth with linen slipcase). - This publication presents the first color reproductions, in book form, of bird paintings of John Abbot (1751-1840), an English-born artist-naturalist who spent: most of his long adult life in Georgia. He completed more than 5000 watercolors of natural history subjects including more than a thousand of birds, most of which are extant, and another thousand of insects, their life cycles and food plants. The remainder includes everything from mites and ticks to crabs and ...
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Article: Black Abbot 4, Hudsons 3.
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November 19, 2007 ;
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... ... Hudsons victory at the weekend after Black Abbot twice fought back from behind to clinch ... Montrose on Sunday for the league clash with Abbot. Hudsons made a couple of changes from ... defender before slotting it past the onrushing Abbot keeper. Two minutes later Abbot were down ...
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