McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Notebook on natural history, Island of Montreal and vicinity 1858-1864
File
1 bound volume
Born in Montréal, Henry G. Vennor was educated at the Montreal High School and at McGill University. From 1865 to 1880 he was on the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada. In 1877 he published the first of his Vennor Almanacs in which he ventured to predict the weather. Apart from being a geologist and meteorologist, Vennor was also an ornithologist and his chief work was Our Birds of Prey (Montréal, 1876).
Notebook documenting wildlife sightings and collection of specimens, especially of birds
Notebook
In English, some small sketches, some loose newspaper clipping about bird sightings, includes "Synopsis of the birds of North America - Land birds" list of 140 species, etched portrait of Vennor pasted on inside front boards, article about him pasted to inside back boards.