Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thirds of which is owned by the MDC and the other third by Cambridge, is the last unspoiled land in Cambridge. Mark DeVoto '61 and Richard Simmers '59 have made a catalogue of the wild life which is made up of both swamp and dry-land flora and fauna. It contains more than 100 species of higher plants, and over 40 types of birds have been seen in the area during the year...
Because of the dumping, the streams have been dammed up and have formed a pond. Thus the area encloses habitats for both swamp and dry-land flora and fauna...
...George L. Clarke '27, Harvard ecologist, is anxious to save it because it is the only area near Harvard which "combines accessibility with an opportunity to study the fauna and flora characteristics of the river bank...
...return wearing beard and beret. The measure of his distance from the conventional unconventional background is that he is a respectable father of four, a full professor of art, and a citizen of Texas. For the past 30 years Professor Spruce has been celebrating the flora and fauna of Texas in imaginative oils laid on with a realistic brush. Now the University of Texas is publishing an annual full-color portfolio of the works of artists portraying the Southwest. Its first choice, picked by a blue-ribbon committee of leading Texas art patrons advised by the state's most...
Citation: "The country's flora and fauna ought now to award him a scroll inscribed with the fitting title, Curator Naturae. Failing that contingency, the Princeton species of Homo sapiens takes pleasure today in bestowing upon him [an] honorary degree...