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Tuesday Tweet: University Bird Class

Associate Curator and Director were not the only titles that Thomas Sadler Roberts held during his tenure at the University of Minnesota. Beginning in 1916, just one year after he started at the U, Roberts also added the title of…


Tuesday Tweet: Ornithology via Auto

In October of 1923, Iva Clare Downey sent Thomas Sadler Roberts a poem that she authored inspired by the experience of riding in an automobile and looking at birds. “Ornithology via Auto” (click on the image for a larger version)…