Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HEART OF BURROUGHS'S JOURNALS - Edited by Clara Barrus - Houghton Mifflin ($3.00). The daughter of Burroughs's physician and confidant chooses widely and wisely from the autobiographical notes of the great naturalist, friend of Whitman...
...eminent naturalist (Dr. Horniday) tells of a duck disappointed with prohibition, who retired to the desert. Selecting a suitable giant cactus, she shoved out the woodpecker tenants and moved in. It was cool and comfortable, had running water in every room. In this rustic solitude she spent her declining years. On summer evenings she might have been observed sitting by an open window, her bright green head thrust out in an attitude of expectancy, a sharp eye peeled for passing worms and unsuspecting bugs...
Clara Barrus, the old naturalist's informally adopted daughter, who mothered him through his last lonely years, now weaves a memorial wreath from leaves of his Journals. The book is good, eminently readable, the true record of a long and many-colored life...
Rotary International was internationally roasted last week by a Catholic bishop in Spain and a Methodist pastor in Manhattan. Because Rotary clubs seem to him to omit the religious idea, because it is "damnable for individuals or societies to try to moralize with a naturalist or atheistic doctrine," the Bishop of Valencia issued a bulletin discouraging Catholics from-joining the clubs...
With gleaming tusks, spotted skins, Africa lures the hunter. With savage tribes, brilliant plumage, exotic flowers, Africa calls to the explorer and the naturalist. But to the 20th century industrialist, eagerly scanning the world's wealth, the world's markets, Africa means first RAW MATERIALS, then CHEAP LABOR. Palm oil, extracted from the fruit of the African oil palm, the basis of many a soap, drew William Hesketh Lever to Africa in 1911 (see p. 17). More and more oil was needed for Lever Brothers' gigantic plant at Port Sunlight, England. The Congo held a vast, almost...