#F. Schuyler Mathews

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“Tails” 1890 / “Heads” 1891 / Happy New Year F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph (printer’s proof) Publisher: L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.) The New York Public Library, Print Collection

New Year’s Day Card for 1891

[heaveninawildflower]

1) Blue Jay

2) Ruby-crowned Kinglet

3) Blue Bird, Robin

4) Bobolink

5) Indigo Bunting, Juncc

6) Pine Siskin, Redpoll

7) Hermit Thrush, Olive-backed Thrush

8) Cape May Warbler, Parula Warbler

9) Pine Grosbeak

10) Screech Owl

Bird illustrations taken from ‘Field Book of Wild Birds and their Music’ by F. Schuyler Matthews. Published 1921.

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13653736

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Some creative attempts at capturing birdsong in musical notation from F. Schuyler Mathews’s Field book of wild birds and their music (1921).

Regarding that last notation, the scream of the Great Horned Owl, the text has this description:

“When that note comes, one will think he hears the ‘crack o’ doom.’ If the Screech Owl’s note is weird, this is horrible; it has the sound of murder in it. No cat on a back-yard fence can produce a yell as hideous!”

Full text available here.

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the song of the bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) by F. Schuyler Mathews „The Bobolink is indeed a great singer, but the latter part of his song is a species of musical fireworks. He begins bravely enough with a number of well-sustained tones, but presently he accelerates his time, loses track of his motive, and goes to pieces in a burst of musical scintillations. It is a mad, reckless song-fantasia, an outbreak of pent-up, irrepressible glee. The difficulty in either describing or putting upon paper such music is insurmountable. One can follow the singer through the first few whistled bars, and then, figuratively speaking, he lets down the bars and stampedes. I have never been able to "sort out" the tones as they passed at this break-neck speed. Others who desired to record the song have found the thing impracticable. Mr. Cheney writes: We must wait for some interpreter with the sound-catching skill of a Blind Tom and the phonograph combined, before we may hope to fasten the kinks and twists of this live music-box." (F. Schuyler Mathews - Field Book of Wild Birds & their Music)

[clawmarks]

Plays and games for little folks - Josephine Pollard and F. Schuyler Mathews - 1889 - via Internet Archive (edited)

[wapiti3]

Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. 

By F. Schuyler Mathew

Publication info New York,D. Appleton and company,1897. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries BioDiv. Library

[histsciart]

Black Walnut Tree (Juglans nigra) by F. Schuyler Mathews for his Familiar Trees and their Leaves (1911) in #BHLib: http://ow.ly/BzIC30aXYFo

[lasterfox]

American Linden, or Basswood. Tilia Americana. The American linden, which sometimes grows under favorable circumstances 130 feet high, is best known by the name of basswood. In the northern part of New Hampshire it never seems to attain any considerable size. Most of the basswood which may be found in the White Mountains is half hidden among the shrubbery; but if one comes across a handsome, large, heart-shaped leaf with strongly marked veins and sharply pointed, irregular teeth, and with tiny tufts of rusty hairs on the back exactly at the junction of the veins, he may be pretty sure it belongs to this tree. If the irregularity of the toothed edge is examined, it will be seen that there is often a regular alternation of fine and coarse points; it would seem as though Nature had first edged the leaf with bold, sharp notches, and afterward, not content with her handiwork, had interspersed the notches with a series of smaller and more delicate ones. The leaf is also characteristically veined; on either side over the two-scalloped (heart-shaped) base is a long vein, from which extend four or five branching ones with a backward curve. This peculiar veining will be more easily seen in my drawing of the European linden's leaf.

-- F. Schuyler Mathews, Familiar Trees and Their Leaves (1911) (via Biodiversity Heritage Library)

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July 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.) The New York Public Library, Art and Architecture Division

[heaveninawildflower]

1) Bouncing Bet (Saponaria officinalis)

2) Large Purple Fringed Orchis (Habenaria fimbriata)

3) Large Flowering Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

4) Common Thistle (Cirsium lanceolatum)

5) Elecampane (Inula Helenium)

6) Robin’s Plantain (Erigeron bellidifolius)

7) Twin Flower (Linnaea borealis var. americana)

8) Fringed Gentian (Gentiana crinita)

9) Bird-foot Violet (Viola pedata)

10) Wild Swamp Rose (Rosa Carolina).

Botanical illustrations taken from ‘Field book of American Wild Flowers’ by  F. Schuyler Mathews.

Published 1912.

This file comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

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September 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph The New York Public Library, Art & Architecture Collection

Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

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October 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph The New York Public Library, Art & Architecture Collection

Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

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June 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph The New York Public Library, Art & Architecture Collection

Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

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December 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph The New York Public Library, Art & Architecture Collection 

Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

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December 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

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November 1896 Artist: F. Schuyler Mathews (American; 1854–1938) Chromolithograph Page from a calendar published by L. Prang & Co. (Boston, Mass.)