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Among other scientific acquisitions are: the first printed work on perfumes; an early study in anthropology, printed in 1642; mathematician John Taylor's "Thesaurarium Mathematicae," written in 1642; and a 20th century edition of the texts of the early French naturalist, Buffon, with drawings by Pablo Picasso...
...Cover) "This country," said General William Tecumseh Sherman, meaning Florida, "is not worth a damn."* Naturalist John James Audubon reported: "All that is not mud, mud, mud is sand, sand, sand." As of today, Sherman is wrong and Audubon is for the birds...
...Naturalist Terres it was an old story. The 1,472-ft. Empire State Building, which is on the migratory flyway that leads down the U.S. East Coast, is a major obstruction to bird navigation. Migrating birds lack the dependable blind-flying instruments that enable an airplane pilot to fly with equanimity through dense clouds. Preferring to fly under a low ceiling, they often crash by hundreds against the Empire State. For some unexplained reason, they do not seem to hit mountains, and Manhattan skyscrapers almost as high as the Empire State seldom kill many birds...
Vassar & Vistas. A former social worker found that she is a painter; a college professor's widow took up the recorder; and a former Philadelphia schoolteacher 1) learned Speedwriting, 2) became an amateur naturalist, and 3) found she was pretty handy at woodworking. From early morning until cocktail time, in fact, the twelve scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points...
...Frying Pan is of a different sort. Catholic priest and the wife of his best friend quite suddenly find that they are in love with each other. Here is where a naturalist would lead his characters into the widest fights of criticism: the unfortunate, quite passionless husband would be painted in a pitiless, scoffing manner, and certainly the love scenes between priest and wife could be ignored in all their sordid and demented glory. But O'Connor merely comments, "He (the husband) as he really was, a man at war with his animal nature, longing for some high, solitary existence...