Word: mammalogist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months or more in its own scampering grounds. Some of the party sailed for Singapore last fortnight and the rest left Vancouver last week on the Empress of Japan. Base camps will be set up in Siamese valleys and Borneo jungles under the leadership of Harold Jefferson Coolidge. Harvard mammalogist and cousin of the late Calvin Coolidge...
...expedition in the cause of mammalogy and ornithology, journey up the waters of the Paraguay River, cross over to one of the tributaries of the Amazon. Accordingly he dropped in for lunch at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, arranged to take with him Ornithologist George Cherrie, Mammalogist Leo Miller and Arctic Explorer Anthony Fiala. In Brazil he was joined by his son Kermit...
...could almost count on one's fingers and toes the people on this earth who have printed anything in defence of voles [meadow mice]; and yet in fair review there seems to more to be said for them than against them," wrote Robert Torrens Hatt, mammalogist of the American Museum of Natural History, in a monograph on meadow mice, The Biology of the Voles of New York, published in the current bulletin of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings...