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...journey to the Pole-but returned to the Arctic 35 times as leader of his own expeditions, mostly at the helm of his 80-ft. schooner Bowdoin, before he and his boat retired together in 1959. Author of several books, including the first Eskimo-English dictionary, MacMillan was a botanist and zoologist as well as the last of the dogsled explorers, remained spry enough in his 70s to earn a rear admiral's stripes locating airfield sites for the Navy in Greenland. Now 92 and living in peppery retirement in Provincetown, Mass., Old Mac bestirred himself to Boston last...
Irving W. Bailey '07, retired professor of plant anatomy and internationally-renowned botanist, died Tuesday in Still-man Infirmary of a heart attack...
IMAGE OF THE UNIVERSE by Richard Mdanathan. 192 pages. Doubleday. $4.50. Yet another ramble through the notebooks of that Renaissance man-architect, painter, astronomer, botanist, engineer, philosopher, sculptor, military tactician-Leonardo da Vinci...
...skeptical surgeon was backed up by Houston Botanist Robert Vines in a terse explanation. "Sam Morse's tree," he said, "is simply an ordinary Leucaena pulverulenta, better known as an Acacia, a Lead-tree or a Great Lead-tree. When the bark ruptures on this kind of tree, the pressure inside the tree's vessels forces its abundant supply of sap to run through the opening...
...Brunswick, N.J., where Joyce Kilmer is said to have written his verses praising trees, a leading botanist last week blamed them for their role in one of civilization's greatest concerns: air pollution. At a biometeorological conference at Rutgers, University of Nevada Professor Frits Went stated flatly that trees foul the air with ten times more pollutants than all of man's fires, factories and vehicles...