Word: fairchild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin, visited the U. S. He lectured at a small agricultural college in Kansas, stayed at the house of the college president. One student who listened to him with particularly wide-eyed wonder was the president's son, David Fairchild, who had already resolved to be a botanist, was studying parasitic fungi and the wind-borne movements of Kansas tumbleweed...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
Once when Fairchild was plant-hunting in the tropics, he was laid low by an infection, almost died. Two of his associates, who realized that he might have taken to his grave the rich story of his experiences, took him back to the U. S., plumped him down on a quiet New Jersey farm, furnished him with a stenographer...
...story of his wanderings and extraordinary discoveries, called The World Was My Garden, was published last week.* Fairchild retired from active service in 1935. Now 69, he lives in Florida. In his early research years at Washington, he met and hobnobbed with many celebrities of that time, including Samuel Langley, William Crawford Gorgas, and Alexander Graham Bell, whose daughter Marian he married. His writing discloses some classic examples of pedagogical quaintness...
Sidney Thompson Fairchild Fellowship in the Law of Railroads and other Public Utilities, to Malcolm M. MacIntyre, now teaching at the University of Alberta, Canada; LL.M. Harvard...