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...Johnson, Carl E. Akeley and other famous sportsmen. He is 39 years old, a graduate of Beloit College (1906) and an M. A. of Columbia (1913). He has been associate curator of mammals in the American Museum of Natural History for over 15 years, has taken part as special naturalist or director in several expeditions for the Museum in Alaska and the Orient. The first Asiatic expedition of the museum went out 1916-1917, the second 1919, and the present one, beginning in 1922, will last until 1927. At the end of the present season the expedition will take...
...narration of a trip which he made for the purpose of collecting mammals, reptiles and fishes for the University Museum. His most striking success was made in the region of Saps Mountain, which had previously been very little explored since early Spanish Colonial times. Dr. Barbour is a naturalist of country-wide reputation, and the author of several papers on fishes and reptiles. At present he is curator of books relating to the Pacific at the University Museum...
Died. Langdon Gibson, naturalist, scientist, explorer, brother of Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, suddenly, at Crieshaven, near Rockland...
...Marine Biological Labratory at Woods Hole, Mass., celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation by Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz, famed Swiss-American naturalist (1807-1873), who became Professor of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The first laboratory was on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay, which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that...
...History Is Bunk." Mr. Henry Ford's remark of four year's ago about history has been duplicated this year by a remark about the Bible. In his John Burroughs' Talks, Chapter 20, Clifton Johnson reports the great naturalist as follows: "One day I was telling him (Ford) what a great book I thought the Bible was ?what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history...