Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine years (1919-28) Gosse made the London Times Literary Supplement portentous and powerful by his often anonymous but always well-known presence; but he had many a row to hoe before he became head gardener. Son of an almost violently religious naturalist, he was teethed on doctrine but never got nearer the kingdom of heaven on earth than working a brief, unhappy while in one of Dr. Barnardo's London orphanages. A timid and touchy man, Gosse was not cut out to be a good mixer with the masses. He got a job in the cataloguing section...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, literary naturalist, found a Harris's sparrow nest containing several fledglings near Great Slave Lake. The find was important because it proved that the bird builds a grass nest on the ground. But what were the eggs like? The Pennsylvanians and Canadians, in friendly competition last month, were trying to find...
Major Henry Lee Higginson married the daughter of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Their son, Alexander ("Aleck") Henry Higginson is a famed foxhunter, divides his time between his 400-acre farm in South Lin- coln, Mass, and England where he is a Master of the Cattistock Hunt. His son, Henry Lee Higginson, is also a gentleman of leisure...
...away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course of lectures on the newest physical theories at the Lowell Institute in Boston, expressed these opinions after a tour of inspection through the Harvard physical buildings...
Appearing before the House Public Lands Committee, she sponsored her bill to create Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. Called as a witness was a man who has spent much time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow...