Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunting, his aimless wandering from university to university in search of a profession. A passive resister rather than a rebel, always intimidated by his big, bumbling father, he decided at last on a Church career. Natural history was merely a desultory hobby that accidentally got him an appointment as naturalist on the five-year voyage of the Beagle. And although he was no more interested in the Church than he had been in his other blind alleys, he was 40 years old before he got up nerve enough to say he was going to be a naturalist instead...
Died. Grey Owl, 50, self-educated Canadian Indian trapper who turned naturalist and conservationist (TIME, Jan. 3); of pneumonia; in Prince Albert, Sask. Returning a month ago from a tour of the U. S. and England, where he gave a command performance before King George and Queen Elizabeth, he told Ontario newshawks that "another month of this lecturing will kill...
...exhibitions of unusual interest. One, historic mementoes of the Hasty Pudding Club, coincides with the opening last night of their latest show; the other, original drawings of American birds by John James Audubon, is current with the recent revival of interest in the famous works of the naturalist-artist...
LETTERS FROM ICELANDy ColumULWARK OF THE REPUBLIC: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE CONSTITUTION Unconventional, 461-page analysis by a 25-year-old English naturalist, of the impact of white society on the natives of the New Hebrides...
...child in Cleveland, Margaret Bourke White, the Photographer, had a room of her own housing 25 turtles, a baby boa and 200 caterpillars. Her father was a naturalist. Later it was a question with her of which college had the best reptiles to study...