Word: zoologist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alired Edmund Brehm, a zoologist of wide celebrity and at present Director of the Berlin Aquarium, will arrive in Philadelphia next week, and will deliver during the month a series of lectures there...
...hammer, trying to drive his hobbies into the heads of his pupils. If he be a chemist, the world to him is one great molecule, whose properties must be found; and he is bent on showering globules of his solution on all who approach him. If he is a zoologist, he regards you as an animal, and discovers, if you have six toes, the bond of kinship between you and extinct ichthyosauri. If a linguist, he is for ever overwhelming you with dead roots, and the hidden beauties of a language three thousand years nearer Adam than your...