John L. Ridgway
John Livzey Ridgway (28 February 1859, in
Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 1920 he moved to California, where he worked for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Institute of Technology
, working for the latter institution up until his death.
John Ridgway illustrated several works in the fields of ornithology and paleontology. Notable among these were:
- Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska (1886)
- Report upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881 (1887) .
- Fish and game of the State of New York: Seventh Report Forest, Fish and Game Commission (circa 1901).
- A series of watercolors of eggs of North American birds that were used as the basis of chromolithographic plates in Charles Bendire's Life Histories (1892–1895)
- Illustrations of Pleistocene fossils at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (California) in the 1920s.
Ridgway authored Scientific Illustration (Stanford University Press, circa 1938) and The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey (USGS, 1920).
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Livzey Ridgway.
- Ridgway Family Papers at Utah State University
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Harry Harris (1927). "John Ridgway's Drawings for the Bendire Plates". The Condor. 29 (4): 177–181. JSTOR 1363184.—describes work on Bendire's Life Histories, work at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Schorger, A. W.; Howard, Hildegarde; Palmer, T. S. (1954). "Obituaries". The Auk. 71 (2): 236–238. JSTOR 4081597.
- Works by John L. Ridgway at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John L. Ridgway at Internet Archive
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