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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Boston Seminar on Environmental History</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Massachusetts Historical Society</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:red">Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 5:15 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">A Nice History of Bird Migration: Ethology, Expertise, and Conservation in 20th Century North America<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Comment: Marilyn Ogilvie, University of Oklahoma<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">This paper focuses on the historical relationships between migratory birds, scientists, and amateur experts in 20th-century North
America, especially Margaret Morse Nice. Nice, simultaneously a trained ornithologist and an enthusiastic amateur across disciplines, almost single-handedly introduced the American ornithological community to European ethology. Her bird-banding work exemplified
the tensions in natural history around expertise, gender, and conservation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">RSVP required.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black"> To respond, email
<a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:seminars@masshist.org">
seminars@masshist.org</a> or call 617-646-0579.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Unless stated, all seminars take place at the Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, and commence at 5:15 PM. After each session the
Society will provide a light buffet supper. In case of inclement weather, phone 617-536-1608 for information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Subscribe to the 2018-2019 series online via
<a href="https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history" target="_blank">
https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history</a>. A $25 subscription allows access to the full series of papers for the year, as well as the papers for the Boston Seminar on African American History, the Boston Seminar on Modern American
Society and Culture, and the Boston Area Seminar on Early American History. Papers are posted three weeks before the seminar; the Dec. 11 paper is now online.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">Questions? Email
<a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org" target="_blank">seminars@masshist.org</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black">We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Katy Morris, Research Coordinator & Book Review Editor<br>
Massachusetts Historical Society<br>
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215<br>
Phone: 617-646-0577, Fax: 617-859-0074<br>
Email: kmorris@masshist.org<br>
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<i>Fashioning the New England Family</i> is on display at the MHS Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM through 6 April, 2019. More information is available at www.masshist.org..
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