Montague Chamberlain

In 1883 he co-founded the American Ornithologists' Union,[1] which today stakes its claim as "the oldest and largest organization in the New World devoted to the scientific study of birds.

The same year, Theodore Sherman Palmer, secretary of the American Ornithologists' Union, wrote an obituary of Chamberlain in The Auk.

[4] Palmer's obituary includes a lament that Chamberlain made no direct contributions to ornithology during the last twenty years of his life.

He also authored the following books: Chamberlain's interest in the Native Americans grew after spending time at the Penobscot haven of Indian Island in Maine, where he helped start a museum.

Chamberlain also became familiar with the nearby and related Passamaquoddy and Maliseet, leading to his drafting of the first significant English-Maliseet dictionary.