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...Henry B. Bigelow '01, professor of Zoology, Emeritus, and the man credited with founding American oceanography, died yesterday at his Concord home...
...Bigelow, 88, was associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoology for 62 years...
...Bigelow directed the Woods Hole group for its first ten years, and later served as a trustee and senior adviser. Under his specifications, Atlantis, the first American oceanographic vessel, was built...
...modern languages, an abolitionist, Ambassador to Spain and the Court of St. James's, author of The Bigelow Papers, and of course poet and perfervid hymn writer ("By the light of burning martyrs, Jesus' bleeding feet I track"). From yet another family branch came Amy Lowell (1874-1925), who wrote passable "imagist" verse, smoked cigars, and drove a claret-colored limousine. "To my family," says Robert Lowell, "James was the Ambassador to England, not a writer. Amy seemed a bit peculiar to them. She was never a welcome subject in our household...
...Department also wants to build a special studio for the composition of electronic music in the library's basement. Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for a composition involving electronic instruments, proposed the studio and will probably supervise...