Word: arachnologist
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...spiders as it's advisable to be. In a scientific way, mind: "Spiders are not something you keep as a pet. They're too precious." Driven by interest alone-a builder by trade, he never went to university-he's become a national authority on eight-legged crawly things ("arachnologist," he corrects), consulted by everyone from students to museum curators and pest-control firms. "Sometimes people send squashed ones," he says with a laugh. "Then you mightn't know what...
...squad spent its afternoons collecting spiders for a Finnish arachnologist, while other men spend hours creatively decorating their metal helmets with goose feathers, McCarthy buttons, toilet paper, obscene photographs, and extremely elaborate designs and slogans chipped in the green, white, and blue Hotshot helmet paint. Wearing the more elaborately decorated helmets became a status symbol and an expression of defiance of busy-work...
Died. Alexander Petrunkevitch, 88, Ukrainian-born arachnologist, famed at Yale (where he taught from 1910 to 1944) for weekly teas and vivid lectures ("The lobster stomach, she pump all time long"), the 20th century's greatest authority on spiders, who devoted 25,-000 hours to amassing a huge collection (including 180 "magnificent" live tarantulas), produced more than 100 books and monographs on scorpions, black widows, and other varieties, including nearly a dozen insects named after him; of pneumonia; in New Haven...
...itinerant South American spider is the newest menace to basement prowlers at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, according to a prominent arachnologist...
...glue, and she must subdue her victim before he breaks loose. This involves violent battles and considerable risk every time she tackles something that can fight. But Agelena is a big spider (her body is three-quarters of an inch long), and she has an advantage which one arachnologist has neatly compared to that of a man on skis chasing an enemy who is floundering through deep snow...
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