Word: mayr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ernst Mayr, who is in charge of plans for the research center and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said that besides aiding pure research, the wildlife center could help to solve the practical problems of conservation and insect control...
...Mayr added that the tract, which includes open fields, woods, and ponds, is an "ideal site" for such research. In addition, a wide variety of birds and over 27 species of mammals have been observed in the area...
...same time, the book has been praised by several eminent men. Ernst Mayr, Louis Aggasiz Professor of Zoology, has called the book a "milestone" of anthropological investigation. Professors George Gaylord Simpson and William W. Howells, although more reserved in their approval, have also received the book favorably...
Before his appointment to the University in 1954, Mayr was a curator in the Department of Birds of the Natural History in New York City. He also founded the journal Evolution, which he edited for three years...
...Mayr is the author of Systematics and the Origin of the Species and Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology...