Word: ichthyologist
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Died. Bashford Dean, 61, famed ichthyologist and armorist (see p. 34); at Battle Creek, Mich...
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South America. Expeditions to remote corners of the world are more and more becoming fashionable among wealthy folk as things to do instead of merely as things to finance. William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist, cruised the Pacific last winter and brought home strange specimens in his yacht Ara (TIME, Apr. 12). Manufacturer Jesse Metcalf (woolens) is off to collect monster lizards at Komodo, Dutch East Indies, (TIME, March 22). George Eastman (kodaks) is in Africa hunting with his cameras (TIME, March 22). Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum...
Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here...
...Walter N. Koelz, ichthyologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the Naturalist of the expedition, reported a collection of specimens so large that he had filled even his bunk with them and slept in the hold. Included were birds and animals not yet named. Jacob Gayer, staff photographer of the National Geographic Society, had over 1,000 colored pictures of wild life...