Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAMLET?Or like a whale...
...Edward Wigglesworth, director of the Boston Society of Natural History, last week dusted off his whale bones and stuffed birds, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the museum's founding. Because it was a special occasion, Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, Honorary Lecturer at King's College, London, was invited to make a speech to the curators, trustees, members. Professor Huxley, whose favorite recreation is "bird-watching," had much to say which a naturalist would find interesting. A distinguished scientist in his own right, he is the grandson of the late famed Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), popularizer of Charles...
Although founded to include flora & fauna of the whole U. S., the Boston Museum today is known as a specialist in New England animals, minerals, flowers. It contains a complete exhibit of old New Bedford and Nantucket 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...
...Michigan. Professor Russell G. Hussey, geologist at the University of Michigan, dug up some whale bones in Michigan. The big animal had died sometime in the Pleistocene period, the great ice age of 550,000 years ago. The discovery interested Dr. Remington Kellogg, whale authority of the National Museum, Washington. Because early whale bones have been found up the St. Lawrence River near Lake Ontario, scientists have thought that the St. Lawrence region was once a part of the ocean. The new discovery extends this old-time ocean inlet even farther, taking in the entire Great Lakes region. Said...
...that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white whale, Moby Dick, on the screen, set off at once for the island in his yacht, Infante, accompanied by his wife, baby and scientists...