Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exhibitions of bird drawings by the great naturalist Audubou, of mementoes of famous Gilbert and Sullivan operatta productions, and of notable Norwegian books and manuscripts are now open to the public at the Widener Library of Harvard University...
Included in the Audubon exhibit are original sketches by the naturalist-artist of the cat-bird, screech, owl the Carolina parrot (now extinct), belted kingfisher, white-throated sparrow, and chuck-will's widow. Also shown are four volumes of the huge "Birds of America" published in the years 1827 to 1838. There are original letters written by Audubon, one of them carrying his personal seal, marked by a wild turkey and the motto "America My Country...
...captain got in touch with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
Interviewed in Manhattan, 78-year-old Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton and his second wife, Julia Buttree Seton, 49, proudly announced that they were the parents of a five-month-old daughter, Beulah. Said Mrs. Seton: "People do look askance at us, and want to know if Beulah isn't our adopted daughter. They do not understand that Mr. Seton, despite his age, is just as youthful mentally, physically and spiritually as he has ever been." Interviewed again by a newshawk who had discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said...
...have long gritted their teeth over the mystery of where the Blue Geese (Chen caerulescens) go in spring. From their winter quarters in the secluded swamp-lands of lower Louisiana the geese fly north so far and fast they literally disappear into the blue. But in 1929 a Canadian naturalist and explorer named Dr. Joseph Dewey Soper at last found a happy ending to his wild-goose chase. He traced the geese into the remote fastness of Baffin Island, deep in the Canadian Northeast, discovered their nesting place...