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When the late famed Geographer-Naturalist Sir John Murray (1841-1914) was 69 years old he sailed off to investigate the deep-water life and sea-floor topography of the North Atlantic Ocean. During a long and active life he commanded or accompanied dozens of oceanographic expeditions but he never satisfied his curiosity about the Indian Ocean. At his death it was discovered he had left $100,000 to finance an investigation of the water between Arabia and India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lemuria? | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...French copper sous grew the eyes of Professor Corbiere, distinguished naturalist, when he sighted the monster. Never in his life had he seen such a thing as this. The world was waiting for him to speak and for France he must not fail. "It is," he proclaimed, "a cetacean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Querqueville Thing | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1934 | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Next day, with a fresh rose in his lapel, Johns Hopkins Gynecologist-Naturalist- Botanist-Historian-Professor Howard Atwood Kelly, 75, piously denounced "a certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent to me. . . . Think of an elaborate conference on Birth Control in the Mayflower Hotel! Such a thing would have been inconceivable 20 years ago. And a great social gathering, too, at which details were talked over. Disgusting! ... I have nine children, and 14 grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Controllers on Parade | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Died. Rodolphe Louis Agassiz, 61, Boston banking & mining tycoon, board chairman of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., onetime international poloist, grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; after long illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass., his home since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1933 | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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