MODERN WILDERNESS. (First Edn.) [Foreword by Frank Chapman, A.M.N.H.]

by Babson, William

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NY:: Doubleday,, 1940. Hardcover; title pg. stamped `A.M.N.H. Cancelled' (American Museum of Natural History); book condition good. ||| Torn, battle-scarred, cello-taped dust jacket shows mallard ducks in flight, skimming over N.J. wetlands.. Color + b&w illus. INSCRIBED & SIGNED in ink on front endpaper--`To Frank M. Chapman / Your lecture that evening at Princeton so long ago helped my first little book. And now, thirty eight years later your Foreword really started my second book Modern Wilderness. / I shall never forget you / With every good wish for the future / Wm. Arthur Babson / November 17th 1940.' ||| Chapman (1864-1945) was Curator of Ornithology at A.M.N.H. 1908-42. Babson, New York City lawyer, found & described the small wildlife sanctuary, a wetland almost within sight of the N.Y.C. skyline. It was bounded by the Whippany & Passaic Rivers & high-speed, heavily traveled highways.