Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...energy covered a very extraordinarily wide field and his personality was so large that we are hampered in our view of him by our own limitations. The morphologist considers his earlier work more important; the geologist, that his reputation rests chiefly on his extensive investigations of coral reefs; the zoologist remembers his vast collection of marine life, gathered in a dozen extended voyages widely scattered over the surface of the globe, and to still others, he appears as one of the greatest benefactors of the oldest university in America; while those who delve among ancient civilizations and primitive races might...