Word: naturalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John O'Reilly of the New York Herald Tribune is not only an able newshawk but a good amateur naturalist who spends much of his time nosing around the laboratories of the American Museum of Natural History. One day last week he was watching burly, affable Herpetologist Gladywn Kingsley Noble at work in his clean smock among his pans, tanks and cages on the Museum's sixth floor. He saw Dr. Noble feeding grubs to a small frog which looked exactly as if it had been skinned alive. Its eyes were pink...
...came the great Rima bas-relief in Hyde Park. Outraged Britons screamed about the lady's "hamlike hands," made speeches on street corners and smeared with green paint this portrayal of the ethereal heroine of Naturalist William Henry Hudson's Green Mansions (TIME, June...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...
Married, Ernest Thompson Seton, 74, author, naturalist; and Mrs. Julia M. Buttree, 45, dean of the College of Indian Wisdom (Santa Fe) of which Mr. Seton is president; in El Paso, Tex. Last fortnight Mr. Seton was divorced by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton, whom he married...
Seeking Divorce. Grace Thompson Seton: from Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist and author of boys' books (The Biography of a Grizzly, Woodland Tales, etc.); after 38 years of marriage. Author Seton recently filed divorce proceedings in Mexico...