Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous botanists. The collection was begun by Professor Asa Gray...
...Agassiz," by Jules Marcon, has just been received from the publishers, Macmillan and Co., New York. This is by all odds the best biography of Professor Agassiz, although since his death a great many books have been written about him. Mr. Marcon enjoyed an intimate friendship with the great naturalist for almost thirty years; in fact he is the last surviving member of the small band of European naturalists who came to this country with Agassiz. He is, therefore, thoroughly competent to treat the matter satisfactorily. The name of Professor Agassiz is immortal and his connection with Harvard makes this...
...long-promised "Life of Agassiz," by Jules Marcou, is at last announced for immediate publication. M. Marcou is the only surviving European naturalist who came with Agassiz to this country, and he was closely associated with him both in Europe and America as pupil, assistant and friend. The book brings out very clearly the identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts...
...good results. Thus often in the troubles and perplexities of life, even those who know God best cannot distinguish His hand. On the other hand, if the mirror be perfect there is nothing told to one who is not a good observer. Thus while to a naturalist every plant and rock tells how the laws of nature are working, to the uneducated they mean nothing. So in religion sometimes where God's light is most clearly reflected, there are those to whom it tells nothing of God's love and goodness. In another point this parable of the mirror comes...
...exploring party under the auspices of the Geographical Society of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania is preparing to make an expedition to Labrador. Mr. Hite, who is connected with the Zoological Department of the university, and who was naturalist on the Peary Relief Expedition is the leader, and Dr. Wetheril is second in command. The main object of the expedition is to see and locate the Grand Falls of Labrador, which are said to be the largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object...