Report 12: The Fortunate Life of a Museum Naturalist: Alfred M. Bailey. Volume 1–Boyhood to 1919

Abstract

This is the first of eight volumes of the illustrated autobiography of Alfred M. Bailey (1894-1978), ornithologist and long-term director of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. It covers his boyhood and early career, including an expedition to Laysan Island and his times in Ohio and Louisiana.