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WITH the passing of Archibald Thorburn, who died on October 9, at the age of seventy-five years, ornithology has suffered a grievous loss. For a generation his pictures of bird-life held a supreme place in the presentation of our native birds; and this because he combined the rare gift of scientific accuracy with a sense of composition and colour-values, rarely attained by any other artist in this field. He knew his birds and loved them, and this goes far to explain his success.
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P., W. Mr. A. Thorburn. Nature 136, 710 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136710a0
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