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Dwindling Breeds. The youngest son of Charles Lindbergh, Scott has devoted the past eight years to studying monkeys and looking for ways to preserve dwindling breeds. Scott's Belgian wife, Alika, a former movie actress and novelist, encouraged him to become a naturalist after they met in 1967, when Scott was in his last year of philosophy studies at Cambridge University in England. With Alika, Scott studied animal psychology at the University of Strasbourg, and began turning his attention to a growing brood of rare monkeys that the two were collecting from friends who had tired of them...
...only proud but prosperous as well. Sioux, Minnetaree. Assiniboin, Cree and Mandan were among the tribes who lived in high style before the European invaders manifested their destiny. The Indians' chief sources of wealth were the bison and the horse. In 1883 the German explorer and naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied and his Swiss-born companion, Artist Karl Bodmer, traveled among the tribes. The result was Maximilian's diaries, packed with details of Indian life and Bodmer's stunning watercolors. It was a happy marriage of ethnology and art, as the reader is now able...
Died. Roderick L. Haig-Brown, 68, Canadian naturalist and author of the 1940 classic fishing book, The Western Angler; of a heart attack; in Campbell River, B.C. Born in England, Haig-Brown traveled to North America in the 1920s in search of "broken country." He settled on Vancouver Island, serving as magistrate of a local court, writing some two dozen books and championing environmental protection long before it became a popular cause...
What is in the wilderness that lies beyond the Colonies? One of the relatively few men who know the details is Naturalist William Bartram, 37. For the past three years he has been traveling through wild country from the Carolinas to West Florida. The son of John Bartram, the famous Philadelphia botanist, William recently passed through Fort Charlotte, South Carolina, and showed a TIME correspondent some travel journals that he has been keeping...
...high, floats upon the lake. The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder." Nonetheless, when Bartram's cockleshell of a boat was attacked by a giant alligator on a Florida lake, the naturalist beat at it with a club "until he withdrew sullenly and slowly into the water, looking at me and seeming neither fearful nor in any way disturbed...