Event

Robert McCracken Peck - Edward Lear: Naturalist, Artist, Illustrator, Author, and Poet

Monday, November 14, 2016 17:00to19:00
Redpath Museum Auditorium, 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA

James McGill Society and the Friends of the Library present

Edward Lear: Naturalist, Artist, Illustrator, Author, and Poet

by Robert McCracken Peck

Edward Lear (1812-1888), known today primarily as the author of literary nonsense and limericks, was also a notable ornithologist.

Rare Books and Special Collections holds a collection of his original drawings and watercolours. A selection of them is currently on view in the fourth floor lobby of the McLennan Library.

Robert M. Peck, Senior Fellow, Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has written extensively on ornithology and natural history.  He has recently published The Natural History of Edward Lear.

All are welcome!


JAMES McGILL SOCIETY

One-Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Meeting

Monday, November 14, 2016

Redpath Museum – Auditorium

859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Reception:  5:00 p.m.   
Presentation:  5:30 p.m.

 

 

Image: Red-billed toucan (Ramphastos toucanus). Courtesy of McGill University, Rare Books and Special Collections

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