Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Russell was connected with the bureau of American Ethnology in 1900-1901, and was at one time associate editor of the American Naturalist. He was a member of the American Geographical Society, president of the American Folk-Lore Society, and one of the founders of the American Anthropological Association. "Explorations in the Far North" and a number of shorter scientific papers were written...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, "Naturalist and humanist...
Professor C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will all from New York next Friday, in company with his son, A. R. Sargent '00, and Mr. John Muir, the distinguished naturalist of the Pacific coast, for an extended trip through Europe and northern Asia in the interest of the Arboretum. Landing at Liverpool, the party will travel through Holland, France and Germany to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the way. From Pekin they will go to Hong Kong and Java, and then returning to Hong...
...Chapman, Curator of the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History will lecture in the Union at 7.15 o'clock this evening on "The Study of Birds in Nature." The lecture will be illustrated by eighty stereopticon views. Mr. Chapman, who is a noted naturalist, is the editor of "Bird--Lore" and the author of a number of ornithological works. The lecture tonight will take the place of the regular Tuesday evening Union entertainment...
...well known naturalist of Switzerland, whose voice is often heard in German magazines, came here for scientific purposes and spent his vacation in various places. When he returned, he gathered his impressions in an essay published in the most widely read review, and condensed his opinions on American universities as follows: 'The American universities are of unequal value; some are simply humbug. They are all typically American, illustrating in every respect the American spirit: they have an essentially practical purpose. The American wishes to see quick returns in facts and successes; he has scarcely ever any comprehension of theory...