Word: naturalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite his 76 years, Luther Burbank, great naturalist, is constantly busy with botanical researches, experiments and observations, publishing freely his results (TIME Jan. 18, SCIENCE). He has come to be known affectionately as "California's Grand Old Man" for his kindliness, his humanity, his love of children. He has a personal creed of welldoing and a God who is one to love and not to fear. Further, he has a hearty, outspoken, incisive contempt for many religious creeds and dogmas, especially the theory of predestination...
...Carveth Wells, famed naturalist, director of many an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, astonished reporters by letting fall numerous lurid observations anent a tour of the Mediterranean from which he returned last week to Manhattan...
...Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, Calif., where Pacific breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe- Putnam ($3). A naturalist tells colorful stories of jungle folk...
...DISAPPOINTED SQUIRREL- W. H. Hudson-Doran ($2.50) True stories about animals from a master pen held by a man who understood animals. Excerpts from The Book of a Naturalist. Illustrated...