Albert R. Brand was born in
New York City. He was a
stockbroker until age 39. At Cornell University he became a graduate student of
ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen. Brand collaborated with Cornell's engineering department to record bird songs, publishing two books accompanied by photographs. His first guide book about bird songs was accompanied by a
phonograph record of a few dozen calls. He followed it up with a sequel with even more recordings. He also recorded frogs. Sales of phonograph records of bird sounds were a key source of income for the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He died at his home in
Ithaca, New York on March 28, 1940. ==Bibliography==