BOOKS AUTHORED BY BROOKE MEANLEY.

Brooke passed away on August 19.  Much of his life was spent in our area,
especially in the Great Dismal Swamp, in the Baltimore area, the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and Virginia, and at the Patuxent Wildlife Research
Center. 

These titles of his are in my natural history library, hence the personal
references.  If there are other books I'd appreciate very much hearing
about them.  I am compiling a list of Brooke's journal articles and reports
(92 references so far).  Perhaps such a list already exists?  

I am not qualified to write an authoritative appreciation of Brooke but
will later post my list of his journal articles as well as my own brief
commemoration.  Suffice it to say he was one of the great general
naturalists and an authority on the American Southeast.

some abbreviations:  ag = autographed.  hb = hardbound.  pa = published by
the author(s).  pb or sb = paperbound.  pc = presentation copy.  TP =
Tidewater Press.  2nd c. @ RF = second copy at my family's Maryland place. 


Meanley, M. Brooke.  Birdlife at Chincoteague and the Virginia barrier
islands.  Tidewater Publishers.  1981.  117p.  pb.  $7.50.  inscribed: "To
Harry Armistead with regards, Brooke Meanley, April 20, 1981."  2nd c. @
R.F.  VIRGINIA.

____.  Birds and marshes of the Chesapeake Bay country [including the
Chincoteague salt marshes].  Tidewater Publishers.  1975.  157p.  pb. 
$5.00.  CHESAPEAKE.

____.  Blackbirds and the southern rice crop.  USDI, F&WS, BSF&W (resource
publication 100).  1971.  64p.  pb.  gift of the author.  $0.35. 
BLACKBIRDS. 

____.  Blackwater.  Tidewater Publ.  1978.  148p.  pb.  ag.  MARYLAND.  

____.  The Great Dismal Swamp.  Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central
Atlantic States, 1973.  48p.  "All things considered, the most generally
useful concise introduction to the vegetation and fauna of the swamp, for
scientist and layman alike", p. 394, "The Great Dismal Swamp" ed. by Paul
W. Kirk, Jr., Old Dominion U. Research Foundation/U. Pr. of Virginia, 1979,
427p.

____.  King Rail.  ANSP, AOU (Birds of North America 3).  1992.  12p.  pb. 
gift of the author.  2nd c. in my BNA set.  RAILS.  

____.  The marsh hen: a natural history of the Clapper Rail of the Atlantic
Coast salt marsh.  TP.  1985.  123p.  illus. by John W. Taylor.  pb. 
review copy.  $8.95.  RAILS.  

____.  Natural history of the King Rail.  USDI, BSFW (North American fauna
67).  1969.  108p.  pb.  inscribed: "Inscribed for my good friend Van, with
fond memories of east Arkansas days. Brooke Meanley."  2nd c. @ R.F. 
RAILS.

____.  Natural history of the Swainson's Warbler.  USDI, F&WS, BSF&W (North
American fauna 69).  1971.  90p.  pb.  gift of the author.  $0.50.  2nd c.
@ R.F.  WARBLERS.

____.  Notes on southern marshes, swamps, and pineywoods.  pa.  2001.  84p.
 pb.  gift of the author.  the SOUTHEAST.

____.  The Patuxent River wild rice marsh.  Maryland-National Capital Parks
and Planning Commission.  1996.  91p.  illus. by John W. Taylor.  pb.  gift
of the author.  MARYLAND.

____.  The Patuxent River wildrice marsh.  pa.  1992.  69p.  illus. by John
W. Taylor.  pb.  gift of Brooke Meanley.  @ R.F.  MARYLAND.

____.  Swamps, river bottoms and canebrakes.  Barre Publ.  1972.  142p. 
hb.  the SOUTHEAST.  

____.  Waterfowl of the Chesapeake Bay country.  TP.  1982.  210p.  hb. 
pc.  ag.  inscribed: "to Harry Armistead with regards, Brooke Meanley,
March 17, 1982."  2nd c. @ R.F.  $19.95.  CHESAPEAKE. 

____, Louise Brooke & Shanta Brooke Keller.  Notes on Dismal Swamp plants. 
pa.  October 2001.  sb.  gift of MBM.  includes letter from MBM to HTA
dated Dec. 8, 2001.  text has computer-scanned photographs taken by MBM
1957-1993.  VIRGINIA.

-Harry Armistead, 523 E. Durham St., Philadelphia, PA 19119-1225. 
215-248-4120.