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Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for Thomas Barbour '06, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Director of the University Museum and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and internationally known naturalist, who died Tuesday of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...Appropriately described by gargantuan adjectives" in a New York Herald Tribune editorial yesterday, Professor Barbour "was physically huge and his frame was matched by tremendous energy and zest for life, a great heart, a mind of extraordinary depth and penetration, and a brilliant and undeniably pungent tongue...
Professor Barbour, a student primarily of reptiles and amphibians and their geographical distribution, had interests also in far wider fields. His triad of well-known books, "A Naturalist at Large," "That Vanishing Eden," and "A Naturalist in Cuba," the latter concluded in 1945, contain little of the dry matter of zoology, though omitting nothing that a good naturalist could gather. His recent "Naturalist in Cuba," selections from which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly, discussed not only the animal, insect, and plant life of the region, but its geology, history, sociology, its people and their food as well...
Servicemen in many parts of the world are adding to the collections of animals, fishes, birds, insects, and reptiles in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Thomas Barbour '02, Professor of Zoology and Director of the University Museum, revealed yesterday...
Professor Barbour announced that at last count the museum library had 86,766 books and 104,605 pamphlets, all of which are extensively used by civilian and service personnel...