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...exhibit at San Francisco's De Young Museum were 440 watercolors from the days when the scientific picturing of flowers was an art, not a craft. The water-colors were the work of a talented early 19th Century French painter-naturalist, Pancrace Bessa...
Fisherman-Naturalist Knight, 56, a retired banker, lives in central Pennsylvania, and he knows a lot about fishing even in places he has never fished. When not busy casting in his favorite trout stream (which he calls "the River X" to keep the crowds away), Knight writes books on wild life and prepares what he calls "solunar tables." By last week the Des Moines Register & Tribune Syndicate had sold Knight's tables and his columns to almost 100 newspapers, making them the most widely read fish talk since Izaak Walton, and much more practical...
Died. John Alden Loring, 76, explorer and naturalist who as a representative of the Smithsonian Institution tramped around East Africa with Teddy Roosevelt, wrote a book about it (Through Africa With Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Owego...
Local pedestrians will have to consult their hymarx on glacier-fording and pray for no snow--at least for the remainder of this winter. The Cambridge snow disposal department, reaching for the collected works of a strong figure in the naturalist school, former Mayor Russell of Cambridge, says that as far as ice deposits on "unimportant" Cambridge streets are concerned, "God put it there and God will take it away." Coming in an era of atom bombs, Mark I automatic calculators, and, of all things, snow removal machines, such an attitude seems to take on definite defeatist implications. One might...
...when the great, grave, bearded Charles Darwin was a bubbling young naturalist, he began his famous voyage on the Beagle. While crossing the South Pacific, he was fascinated by the ring-shaped coral islands, which he decided to call "by their Indian name of atolls." He wondered about those saucers of coral standing on steep-sided platforms above the deep ocean floor. Why their ring shape? How had they been formed? It was known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths...