Word: hornaday
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Died. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 82, caustic, crusading wild life conservationist, first director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn...
...University of Paris, paying his expenses by collecting and selling European fossils. In 1861, aged 27, he became a professor of natural science at the University of Rochester. He assembled a group of skilled preparators which, at one time or another, included Carl Akeley, Charles Livingston Bull, William T. Hornaday, Frederic Lucas. He sold a $20,000 collection of fossils to the university, but went ahead with his mail-order business on a high scientific plane. He was killed by an automobile...
...back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded a higher return...
...since served, he has turned religious, become a Christian Scientist. Last week with a pardon as a Christmas present, President Roosevelt excused Roy Olmstead from the unpaid fine and costs, restored his civil rights. At a press conference last February, the President called forward to his desk James Parks Hornaday, Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News, and declared: "The nicest and truest thing I can say about you is that you are a gentleman of the Press." The occasion was the 50th anniversary of Hornaday's work as a newspaperman, a tribute to him as dean of Washington newshawks...
Died. James Parks Hornaday, 72, long time (34 years) Washington bureau chief for the Indianapolis News, dean of Washington correspondents ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Washington...