Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After a description of the chief physical and natural characteristics of the country, its flora, fauna, peculiar scenery, which makes the landscape grotesque rather than picturesque, he went on to tell how he happened to visit "the land of the dawning" as a naturalist and investigator. The description of his life among the natives, of its dangers, trials, and compensations, was one of the most interesting portions of the lecture...
...National Academy of Sciences was founded by the United States Government in 1863. Louis Agassiz, the noted naturalist, being its chief instigator. At the society's origin only fifty members were admitted, now the limit is one hundred, the present membership being ninety-six, of whom twelve are from Harvard. The members of the society offer to investigate without recompense, any scientific questions which the government authorities may present to them...
...club house, 11 West Twenty-second street. Francis O. French, recently elected president, presided. The meeting was terminated by a supper. Several new members were elected, among them H. Clifford Watson, the coach of last year's crew; Francis Peabody, jr.; George R. Agassiz, a son of the naturalist, and Judge Ward McAllister, jr., a son of Ward McAllister of New York...
...geology, in addition to various papers in Scribner's Monthly, the Forum, Nation and other well-known journals. The third edition of his "Kentucky" has been brought out by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Professor W. M. Davis has contributed valuable articles on meteorology and physical geography in the American Naturalist, Science, and the American Journal of Science. Professor Joseph H. Thayer has done some extremely important work on philology. The Harpers have published for him a Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. This is based on Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, which he has translated, revised...
...recognized as one of the rising men in the scientific world, and that later by his indefatigable labors on the flora of America, he became recognized as the leading botanist of his generation. Dr. McKenzie was peculiarly fitted for his task of giving an estimate of this naturalist's life. He was his friend and ardent admirer, and, thoroughly understanding and appreciating him, was able to throw much valuable light on the character of this gentle and learned man. The choir sang first the hymn "Son of My Soul" and then the anthems, "Come Unto Him," by Tuckerman, and Foster...