RARE! "Ornithologist" Arthur Cleveland Bent Hand Written Letter Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction a RARE! "Ornithologist" Arthur Cleveland Bent Hand Written Letter Dated 1929.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
ES-8890
Arthur Cleveland Bent
(November 25, 1866 – December 30, 1954) was an
American
ornithologist
. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work,
Life Histories of North American Birds
, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously. Bent was brought up in
Massachusetts
, where he became interested in birds as a child. He was later successful in business and traveled throughout North America, acquiring an extensive knowledge of its avifauna. From 1901 he was contributing papers to
The Auk
, the journal of the
American Ornithologists' Union
. Following a request from the
Smithsonian Institution
in 1910, Bent started work on the project that would dominate the rest of his life. Using his own experiences, the published literature, and contributions from hundreds of others, he put together what was at the time by far the most comprehensive repository of knowledge about the biology of the birds of North America. His accounts were published progressively in the
United States National Museum Bulletin
(NMB),
and later republished by
Dover
. In 1940 Bent was awarded the
John Burroughs Medal
for distinguished book-length nature writing. He was awarded the
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
from the
National Academy of Sciences
in 1949 .