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Dr. Joseph J Murray Speaker at BBC Banquet - Sept 21, 1964
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Sept. 21, 1961, Dr. Joseph J. Murray, Sr. (1890-1973) was the speaker for BBC Hotel Bristol banquet. Dr. Murray returned to Bristol Sept. 25, 1964 to again be the BBC Annual Banquet speaker.
While here in September 1964, BBC members hosted Dr. Murray to the Mendota Hawk Lookout for his first ever visit there and he and his wife spent several hours counting hawks with BBC members.
He was a charter member of the Virginia Society of Ornithology and from 1930 to 1969 was editor of The Raven, the VSO journal of ornithology.
A Presbyterian minister from Lexington, Va., he was made an Elective Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. From 1936 to 1946 he served as Secretary of the National Audubon Society.
Dr. Murray was the author of the 1952 Check-list of the Birds of Virginia (the state's first such checklist). He also authored the Birds of Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1957 and a rare book, Wild Wings (1947, by John Knox Press of Richmond, Va).
From the archives of the Bristol Bird Club
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