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...whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing. In 1837 he contributed two stuffed oyster-catchers, gawky birds with gaudy red beaks, black and white bodies. Another famed member was tall, smiling Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-73), Swiss-American naturalist who called every animal...
TIME uses Webster's International, retaining editorial license. To the TIME ear it seems that a steam locomotive says "chuff" when it starts up, not "chug," the sound of antique motorcycles and fishermen's power boats.-ED. Sister of M. L. S. Sirs...
Died. Arthur Webster Thompson, 55, onetime vice president of Baltimore & Ohio R. R., president of Philadelphia Co. (utilities) and of United Gas Improvement Co.; of heart disease; in Pittsburgh...
...Webster Eisenlohr (Cigars...
...summary: HARVARD 1934 TABOR Nichols, g. g., Eggleston Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Mason Pollard, l.f.b. l.f.b., Reeve Streeter, r.h.b. r.h.b., Carlisle Robinson, Oppenheimer, c.h.b. c.h.b., Carrick Robbins, l.h.b. l.h.b., Webster Baxter, o.r.f. o.r.f., Read Gummere, Damon, i.r.f. i.r.f., Hemphill, Hood Martin, c.f. c.f., Ryder Masjoan, Nolan, i.l.f. i.l.f., Clifton Gilbert, o.l.f. o.l.f., Varney...