Word: zoologists
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Died. Charles Haskins Townsend, 84, famed zoologist and arctichthyologist, for 35 years director of the New York Aquarium; in Miami, Fla. He was credited with having saved three varieties of rare "critters" (his invariable term) from extinction: the giant Galapagos tortoise, the Alaskan reindeer, the fur seal...
Scientists, like poets, are peculiar people. That is a fortunate fact for civilization, thinks Zoologist John R. Baker of Oxford University, who fears that the world may wind up with a planned society after the war. He has written a bitter book, The Scientific Life (Macmillan; $2.50), demanding that scientists be allowed to be as queer as they please...
...British admiral's son who has spent much of his scientific life investigating savages in the New Hebrides, Zoologist Baker believes that scientists are in grave danger of being regimented into total sanity. An arch-individualist, he holds that scientists must have complete freedom of inquiry. In support of his theory that most great scientists have been rather odd, and many of their discoveries the result of accident rather than planning, he presents some persuasive evidence...
...Thomas Hunt Morgan (1933), Caltech zoologist, pioneer in the study of chromosomes and genes, lawgiver in heredity and genetics...
Practical Importance. The discovery that mice erupt in cycles has important practical applications. In 1935 a U.S. zoologist was able to warn orchardists 18 months in advance of the worst mice outbreak New York State ever suffered, helped save thousands of fruit trees...