Word: ichthyologist
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Like a bull walrus on a rock, old Louis II, Prince of Monaco, basked contentedly in the Mediterranean sun. At 75, Europe's No. 1 amateur ichthyologist and ruler of its smallest principality (370 acres, 1,761 Monégasques) might well feel that in history's game of chance, luck had been with him. Of all the Continent's occupied countries, Monaco was perhaps the least scarred...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...
...every ichthyologist knows, certain fish seem to possess an acutely developed weather sense: e.g., the loach, a species of carp (known in Germany as the "weather fish"), which becomes very lively when the barometer drops. From Cape Town last week came a whopping weather-fish story. Dr. Cecil von Bonde, South Africa's fisheries director, said he was testing a fish which seems able to forecast weather after death...
...croquet, fishing is probably the only sport at which women can beat men. Last week brawny members of the world-wide brotherhood of big-game anglers doffed their visors to a member of the sisterhood: attractive, 125-lb. Mary Pouch Smithers Sears, wife of a blue-blooded Boston ichthyologist...
Crusader. Oscar Riddle was born in Cincinnati, Ind., got his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, after returning from a natural history expedition to South America's Orinoco River, was well on the way to becoming an ichthyologist when a lecture on evolution gave a new turn to his career. He went to the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor in 1912 as a research associate, and, except for a Wartime sojourn in France, has stayed there ever since...