Chamberlain, Montague

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  • Wiki Biography:
    • Montague Chamberlain (April 5, 1844 – February 10, 1924) was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist, and ethnographer.
    • Chamberlain was born in St. John, New Brunswick, British North America. He spent the first few decades of his life as a bookkeeper and later manager of a grocery company in St. John. In his mid-twenties, he also became a dedicated amateur ornithologist. In 1883 he co-founded the American Ornithologists’ Union, which today stakes its claim as “the oldest and largest organization in the New World devoted to the scientific study of birds.” In 1888 Chamberlain became a resident member and editor for the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and a founding member of the American Ornithologists’ Union. After quitting the grocery business, he became the assistant secretary of the Harvard Corporation in 1889 and the secretary of the Lawrence Scientific School in 1893.
    • He was a frequent contributor to The Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, The Auk (of which he was also a founding associate editor ), and Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, the first of which published his A Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick: With brief notes relating to their migrations, breeding, relative abundance, etc. in 1882.
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