Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long when fully grown, the gypsy-moth caterpillar looks harmless enough: a brownish, multilegged strip of fur with telltale pairs of red and blue spots running down its back. But looks are deceptive. Ever since 1869, when it was inadvertently turned loose in Massachusetts by a misguided French naturalist who wanted to cross the European gypsy with the silkworm to produce a disease-resistant hybrid that would eat virtually anything, it has been munching its way across the Northeast. As many as 30,000 caterpillars can infest a single tree, and each of them can consume five or ten small...
Calling himself "extremely honored," Adams said Harvard may have made one mistake in giving him a degree. "They've got me down as a naturalist, but I'm an environmentalist," he said...
DIED. Edwin Way Teale, 81, naturalist, photographer and illustrator whose more than 30 books (The Lost Woods, North with the Spring, A Walk Through the Year) combined a scientist's eye for detail with a poet's love for language; in Norwich, Conn. Teale, who became interested in the out-of-doors during childhood visits to his grandfather's farm in Indiana, put two decades of effort and 100,000 miles of travel into a four-part series on the American seasons, which culminated in 1965 with the Pulitzer-prizewinning Wandering Through Winter. In it he wrote...
Although much of his work has focused on the study of birds, Mayr once wrote that "as a lifelong naturalist, I have been interested in the well-nigh inconceivable diversity of the living world, its origin and meaning." Born in Germany and educated at the University of Berlin, he has dedicated his scientific career, in his own words, to "a clarification of evolutionary concepts and processes...
...series centers on Darwin's service as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, which spent five years in the early 1830s charting and surveying the waters off the coasts of South America. It was the chief event of his life. Though he had little formal scientific training, the young man, played with athletic gusto by Malcolm Stoddard, had an "enlarged curiosity," as his uncle phrased it. Darwin's native skepticism turned the voyage into a fresh, vigorous inquiry into the nature of things, and the Beagle carried not only him but mankind into a new era of understanding...