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...Road of a Naturalist-Donald Cidross Peattie...
Secret of Will Cuppy's success is that he can simultaneously be insane and urbane. Says Naturalist William Beebe: "When a scientist states a fact that ends it. But Cuppy is not satisfied and carries it further." Few will profit more from the book than the fast-vanishing Ivory-billed Woodpecker, for whom the author has sound advice...
...sooner or later, though he claims there is no connection between the two interests, Hoadley gets to talking about fishing--honest-to-goodness fly fishing, "as a sporting proposition and not a laboratory experiment." But even here, he is always the scientific naturalist. He would never be found telling "whoppers" over the bridge table, polishing his fishing pole in the living room, or mounting his prize catch for that revered space above the mantelpiece. He loves being alone in the woods, getting up at the crack of dawn, taking long walks over the mountain paths--all the atmosphere and environment...
...Cott quotes a fellow naturalist: "In . . . Tanganyika a small moth resembling a bird-dropping was not uncommon. On one occasion I observed what I thought to be one on a leaf, but after a close examination from a distance of only a few inches I discovered (to my own satisfaction) that it was after all only a bird-dropping. Just as I turned away the said bird-dropping flew...
Sanderson, a British zoologist who putters about the tropics studying small animals, writes this, his fourth book, with an air of cheery teatime banter which yet smells of good, scientific formaldehyde. It ranks him with such literate naturalists as Henry Walter Bates (The Naturalist on the Amazon), Thomas Belt (Naturalist in Nicaragua), William Beebe (Jungle Peace...