Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zoologist-Writer William Beebe (Jungle Peace), sailing for Bermuda, where defense activities were making a mess of his marine laboratory, spoke hopefully of starting another laboratory. Possible site: near the peaceful jungle of Brazil...
Sanderson, a British zoologist who putters about the tropics studying small animals, writes this, his fourth book, with an air of cheery teatime banter which yet smells of good, scientific formaldehyde. It ranks him with such literate naturalists as Henry Walter Bates (The Naturalist on the Amazon), Thomas Belt (Naturalist in Nicaragua), William Beebe (Jungle Peace...
...student, the paramecium is a one-celled, slipper-shaped little animal which lives in ponds and puddles. In the one-celled kingdom the paramecium is a giant, just visible to a good, sharp, naked eye. For three years Dr. Herbert Spencer Jennings, distinguished University of California at Los Angeles zoologist,* has been watching a thousand generations of one species, Paramecium bur-saria, under his microscope. Last week he told about his paramecia's mating habits...
Tall, husky Zoologist Robert Cushman Murphy gets mad when he considers what human rapacity has done and is still doing to whales. Though he is officially Curator of Oceanic Birds at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Murphy is an expert on whales & whaling. He fumes with invectives like "unalleviated carnage" and "butchered and rendered with horrible dispatch...
Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...