Word: ornithologist
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Richard P. Strong, professor of Tropical Medicine, headed the group. He had as assistants Jack H. Sandground, assistant professor of Tropical Helminthology, and Dr. Jean Becquaert Henry E. Mallinckrodt '36 served as photographer and and R. S. Pierrepont, Jr., of Princeton, as ornithologist...
Died. Dr. Elon Howard Eaton, 67, ornithologist, head of the biology department of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N. Y.; after long illness; in Geneva...
There is no sentiment in a bird's sex life. Most people think the male struts and flaunts his plumage to take the female's fancy. What he is really attempting is intimidation. So reported Cornell University's Ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen to some 400 colleagues gathered in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History last week for the golden jubilee meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...
...ardent amateur ornithologist, Stevens sat in the library of his Highland Park (Chicago suburb) home, within reach a volume of an encyclopedia open to an article on birds. Taking a revolver in hand he fired a trial shot into the fireplace, then put a bullet through his head. Insurance to be paid on his life was estimated at $300,000. His brother and his father, 79, were to go on trial with him, but the father last week lay ill unto death with apoplexy and his life insurance of $72,000 was in danger of lapsing unless premiums were paid...
...Another famed private collection: that of Ornithologist John Eliot Thayer in Lancaster, Mass. Last year he presented 30,000 North American bird skins, nests & eggs to Harvard. *Also announced was a gift of 1,500 wild ducks from Lord William Percy...