Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure draped in a loosely cut suit has been seen on many a public platform, from which he has issued dignified appeals for charity from behind a mustache which is less voluminous than it once was. His brother is famed Naturalist Henry Fairfield Osborn; his wife was Alice Dodge, which accounts for his directorate in Phelps Dodge Corp...
Died. Harry C. James. 64. sportsman, naturalist, vice president of Denver National Bank, "Denver's most popular citizen"; near Morrison, Colo...
...Audubon's time (particularly the flycatcher family). A genius, unwilling to allow any plate to be un-notable, Audubon often made his birds unrealistically spectacular. Critics perceive that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish. Not a romantic naturalist, he has always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight...
Died. Horatio Gordon Hutchinson, 73, British sportsman, writer, naturalist; in London. He is credited with much of golf's popularity in England through his fine playing and written descriptions of the game. In 1908 he was elected captain of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's, an honor accorded formerly to none but royalty...
Depression. Last year's kill was estimated at one-third of normal. Naturalist Van Campen Heilner figured the cost of the shortened season at $60,000,000. Wildfowl shooting normally is a $100,000,000-a-year industry, the money going for guides, guns, shells, food, clothing, transportation, grain, etc., etc.?about $50 from each of two million shooters. Furthermore, millions of dollars are spent on preserves: near Sandusky, Ohio $3,000,000 was spent for dikes alone; at Currituck Sound, N. C., Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph Palmer Knapp (American Lithographic...