Your source just says that someone by the name of Howard Radclyffe Roberts became an associate of the American Ornithologists’ Union in 1924 and remained so until at least 1929. Merely being an “associate” doesn’t make one a prominent ornithologist, just one with an interest in the field. But more importantly I think this was the Jr. not the Sr.; it makes more sense to me that the grandchild would subscribe to this journal his senior year of high school after an ornithology-loving teacher sparked his interest in natural history than for the father to join at 47, the year he died. And it’d be strange to still include him in the directory 5 years after his death. Umimmak (talk) 07:31, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
- @More Boring Guy: I'm now sure it refers to his grandson, the Jr., because I looked up a 1941 (JSTOR 4078889) listing of associates of the American Ornithologists' Union (so this would be well after the Sr. has died) and it reads:
ROBERTS, H[OWARD] RADCLYFFE, Villa Nova, Pa.............. 1924
, so the same year he joined the union as in your 1929 source. This is pretty clearly the Jr. -- 17 years after the Sr. died. And for what it's worth, in my research writing the article on the Jr., I didn't come across any sources that described the Sr.'s job as an ornithologist, but plenty of sources which mentioned the Jr.'s forays into ornithology. Umimmak (talk) 19:22, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
