Word: echini
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Throughout his active scientific life, he was a constant student of the recent Echini and examined and described a large part of the collections of the "Challenger," "Blake," and "Albatross" expeditions. He met the "Challenger" when it reached Halifax in May, 1873; and it was here that the scientists of that expedition prophesied that he would have a brilliant future. In the winter of that same year he passed through a terrible ordeal in the death of both his father and wife. Yet, though a changed man, he clung to his desire for new knowledge and, in accordance with...