Word: naturalistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch shopkeeper, amateur naturalist, microscope maker, the first human being to see microbes...
...Naturalist. Near Camp McCoy, Wis., a Brooklyn G.I. returned to his company carrying a full-grown set of rattlesnake rattles, explained that he "got 'em off a big woim...
...story of the tern colony called Wideawake Fair on Ascension Island (TIME, Jan. 3), the heading "Boobies on the Runway" is misleading. One of my naturalist colleagues who has recently returned from Ascension reports that he never saw a booby on the airfield or anywhere else in the interior of the island, although many of them live around the shores...
Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...
...insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...