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...excitement swept through Britain's museums and bird clubs. After a 42-year absence, a pair of ospreys was spotted at Loch Garten. Ornithologist George Waterston, Scottish representative of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, stood guard while the hen laid three eggs. The oölogist enemy was watching, too. At 2 a.m. one dark night, an egg snatcher climbed the tree. The defenders gave chase, but the oölogist escaped into a nearby forest, dropping and smashing two of the eggs as he fled...
...base of the tree, planted the vicinity with booby traps, built an observation post with a covered approach. Relays of guards kept 24-hour watch, helped at night by a parabolic microphone so sensitive that they could hear the female panting on the nest-or any sly oölogist footsteps...
Naturalists have long been interested in the strange animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le Souëf, zoölogist of Taronga Zoölogical Park, Sydney, told Australian naturalists of a huge newly discovered catlike marsupial with striped stomach seeen in mountainous Queensland districts. Said he: "I am positive Australia will present another zoölogical curiosity to the world...
Famed are Berkeley's pedagogs, among them: Professor Herbert McLean Evans, discoverer of vitamin E; Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid, celebrated zoölogist, Professor Robert Heinrich Lowie., onetime (1913-21) curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Professor Gilbert Newton Lewis, whose theory of Time-Past and Time-Future may win him the Nobel Prize (TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster...
...enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
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