Postscript: In Search of a Career and Myself

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My childhood and adolescence, and those of Eliza, my wife and companion of 67 years, were rather exceptional for children of educated parents in the United States.

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    None of which I have ever attended.

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    Though Peters died before the Checklist was completed, colleagues ensured its publication in 1987. According to Harvard’s history of the Ornithology Department, “this systematic checklist still remains the basis of organization for many ornithological collections throughout the country.”

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Scudder, T. (2019). Postscript: In Search of a Career and Myself. In: Large Dams. Water Resources Development and Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2_6

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