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
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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
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