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ABSTRACT A NEW one-cent stamp in honour of Audubon was issued in St. Framisville, Louisiana, on April 8. J. J. Audubon (1785-1851), the well-known naturalist son of a Frenchman, worked
almost solely on American animals, his greatest work being “Birds of America”. This work contained 435 hand-coloured plates with 1,065 life-sized figures of 489 distinct species of birds.
Audubon was the pioneer in the portrayal of birds in their, natural positions and environment. The three-cent stamp in honour of Burbank was issued in Santa Rosa, California, on April 17.
Luther Burbank (1849-1926) was the famous American plant breeder. Most of his work was carried out at Santa Rosa, which he described as “the chosen spot of all this earth as far as Nature is
concerned”. His most important early work, in 1872, was that of the development of the Burbank potato. Later, he worked successfully on the plant genera Rubus and Prunus. Access through
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