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...eight years the Chilean Government has prohibited the hunting or export of chinchilla, lest it become extinct. But naturalists as well as furriers have an interest in the chinchilla. No chinchilla has ever been kept alive in a U. S. zoo more than a year. The temperate climate of the U. S. is completely unsuited to the creature's constitution. In 1913 one M. F. Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years...
Original colored drawings of birds by John J. Audubon, pioneer American naturalist, whose pictures a century ago first familiarized the world with American bird life, are shown in an exhibition at Widener...
...BOOK of HOURS-Donald Culross Peattie-Putnam ($2.50). Rosary-like, 202-page addenda to Author-Naturalist Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns, brummagem "classic." Illustrations by Lynd Ward...
...collec tor's item at $750. Brilliantly-plumed birds could be seen on the lawns of ty coons like Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace, but to most citizens a pheasant was only a long-tailed wild bird useful for sport and food. Now Naturalist Beebe's definitive work has been re-issued in one volume at $3.50* and pheasant raising has become a fad among rich rural connoisseurs. With only five pairs entered in last year's Poultry Show, a handful of fanciers organized an Ornamental Pheasant Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president...
...eleven years while bearded Chris Jorgensen, a capable, conservative, never exciting painter, covered acres of canvas with views of Yosemite Falls, the Half Dome, El Capitan and the rest of the valley's wonders. The Jorgensens became fast friends of the valley's best-known inhabitant, bearded Naturalist John Muir. In 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt visited the valley he outraged the inhabitants by turning down an elaborate reception to eat flap jacks over a campfire with Naturalist Muir and Painter Jorgensen...