Bill Clark Receives the Eisenmann Medal

Linnaean Society of New York

March 12, 2002

Deborah Allen, President of the Linnaean Society of New York, presented the Eisenmann Medal to William S. Clark at the Society's annual dinner at the Liederkranz Club, New York City, on March 12, 2002. The Medal is named in honor of the brilliant lawyer-ornithologist Eugene Eisenmann, a past President of the Society. Bill Clark followed with a slide show and lecture covering many of the difficult taxonomic problems he has studied in birds of prey.

Socializing with the Massachusetts delegation: Peter Alden, Guy Tudor, Elise Buerger, Vernon Laux and Fritz Müller.

Tom Burke and his bird ID puzzle tie. Tom was elected a fellow of the Linnaean Society in recognition of his many years of valuable service as the Society's auditor and as the compiler and voice of the New York Rare Bird Alert.

Bill Clark with another raptor enthusiast, Robert DeCandido, PhD, Vice-President of the Linnaean Society.

2001 Eisenmann Medal - Robert S. Ridgely

2003 Eisenmann Medal - F. Gary Stiles