Word: fauna
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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...
Young Gerry, already a budding zoologist, was a bit of a hellion in this demi-paradise, but only because of his avid scientific urge to bring all the island fauna home. There was the day brother Leslie I went upstairs to bathe and found two snakes in the tub, and the day brother Larry started to light a cigarette from a matchboxful of scorpions. Gerry had been studying the scorpions' mating dance. The rest of the family had their own little idiosyncrasies to which, as his title suggests. Author Durrell pays his amused and amusing respects...