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Scope and Contents This volume represents a series of numbered sheets, continuing to no. 385, but with a great many gaps. Each sheet was repaired and the full gathering bound by a former librarian. Each carries a watercolor of a bird, the drawings seemingly copied from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. The volume was originally labeled: "Wilson's original drawings" but this note lightly crossed out and in the hand of E. J. Nolan another note "Not Wilson's drawings" inserted. Again below the original...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 487 natural history drawings in watercolor, wash, ink, gauche, and tempera, primarily created between 1834 and 1936. The majority of subjects are birds, but mammals are also included. The collection is made up of 220 drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1874-1927, 71 by John L. (John Livesy) Ridgway (b. 1859), 63 by Robert J. Sim, 29 by W. T. Allan, 27 by Ernest Thomas Seton (1860-1946), 13 by Allan Brooks (1869-1946), 11 by D. Darling, 8 by Earl L. Poole, 5 by...

Scope and Contents These four quarto sized volumes contain 58 pages of watercolors, each page measuring 34 x 27 cm., with varying image sizes. Each volume includes a dated title page and a contents page, handwritten in black ink, and each plate is followed by a hand written description. The watercolors are notable for the portrayal of the iridescence on the plumage of the hummingbirds, a technique invented by Baily, accomplished by the use of gold and silver leaf. A relative, John Collins, assisted Baily in...