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Carl E. Akeley, of Manhattan, known as a penetrator of Africa, a good friend of the gorilla, and an intimate of many other wild beasts, is not only a naturalist, but a sculptor. He has from time to time submitted statues for entrance in the exhibitions of the National Academy of Design. This year for the first time, his work was rejected...
...using oxygen tanks to reinforce their panting lungs, attained 27,250 feet, within 2,000 feet of the summit, before they were compelled to turn back. The new expedition will contain 13 members, six of whom are novices. Major R. W. C. Kingston will be medical officer and naturalist, Captain J. B. L. Noel, official photographer and cinematographer...
...Society of Friends of Medical Progress was organized last week by a number of prominent laymen to support scientific medicine and experimentation, and to resist propaganda or legislation dangerous to public health. Dr. Charles W. Eliot is Honorary President; Thomas Barbour, naturalist, is acting President; Ernest Harold Baynes, defender of vivisection and of humanity to animals, is Field Secretary. The Society is commended by the American Medical Association...
...died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle...
...What amazes one in the life of Theodore Roosevelt is his prodigious activity of mind and body and his great accomplishments in so many fields of endeavor. He was a scientific naturalist and famous hunter. The number of his books and their quality would satisfy the ambition of one who wished only to be distinguished as an historian and in letters. His constant aim was to get out of himself the best there...