Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of individualists that Boston's Beacon Hill has nurtured over the centuries, add Richard White, 24, a day laborer, writer and naturalist who shuns, literally, current affairs: his apartment on Myrtle Street has no electricity or gas. He explains: "I eat only natural food, and I buy enough to last me only a day, so I don't need a refrigerator. I don't need gas because I don't believe in heating food. It destroys the nutrients...
...hearing. But the Boston housing inspection department reread its regulations and last week decided that White had a point. He is still in the dark, leaving Housing Inspection Director Frank Henry thoreauly mystified. "Today," he said, "the average person wants lights on." It was noted that the naturalist had no radio or TV. "Well," said Henry, "maybe he's ahead...
...ground. The bees get a disease; most of them die. McKay and Catherine retreat to Boston. In the process, real people as well as real historical events glance off the angles of McMahon's sto ry. Among the people: Louis Agassiz, 19th century America's most celebrated naturalist, cold to Darwin's evolutionary theories because he regards each species of plant or animal as. "in itself, a thought...
Eiseley's most significant accomplishment, though, is to rediscover another English naturalist named Edward Blyth, who as early as 1835 set forth the tenets of what later became known as the the ory of natural selection. Darwin, Eiseley argues persuasively, was more than just a little familiar with Blyth's work, and even quoted from one of his papers. But Darwin never publicly acknowledged, let alone discharged, his debt to Blyth, and history has been no kinder. Eiseley's ex pose in no way diminishes Charles Dar win's importance, but it does help ex plain...
...much earlier novelist than Karl May sparked the German "love affair" with our American West. He was H.B. Möllhausen, an artist-naturalist who in 1857-58 accompanied Lieut. Joseph C. Ives on the first Colorado River expedition. Möllhausen returned to Germany to become a popular novelist who recaptured the American West from his own experiences. May perhaps resembles Zane Grey, but Möllhausen was actually compared to James Fenimore Cooper...