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...splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there was Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of Naturalist Seton, who exhibited a rifle "that already has to its credit a 1,000-lb. moose, an 800-lb. bear, an antelope shot running at 90 ft. and a wapiti...
...while he was studying at Iowa State College that William Hornaday, a vigorous, tar-haired Hoosier, came upon the works of Naturalist John J. Audubon and determined thenceforth to devote himself, not to natural history in a scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds...
...writing reflects the true instinct and feeling of a born naturalist, and he has long been accepted as the peer of men like Ernest Thompson Seton and the late Jack London. Acclaim has come not only from naturalists but? much more important?from hosts of readers who know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters...
Just as the brothers Roosevelt were sailing home last week after their natural historical expedition into Tibet and Turkestan for the Field Museum of Chicago; just as the Roosevelts' head naturalist and taxidermist, George K. Cherrie, landed at Boston with photographs of bearded, turbaned Roosevelts, with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown...
...long adventurous trip made by the band of over 500 explorers which culminated in the last climb of Irvine and Mallory who after coming within 800 feet of their goal were overwhelmed by the snow, proved of high value from the standpoint of the naturalist and scientist although Mt. Everest was not conquered. The pictures taken by Capt. Noel in his official capacity contain kaleidoscopic records of people and customs still unknown even to the professional travelogue lecturers...