Present examples, such as these, should make a naturalist hesitate before coming to the conclusion that Siberian wilds, even as now, were wholly incompatible with the existence and support of troops of mammoths or mastodons.
This is admitted by Lamark, and the two Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; it is admitted also by the English naturalist Darwin.
Monsieur Constant Prevost, the naturalist who has most studied the bird, gave to it the name of gastornis Parisiensis.
One of the regular course of free scientific lectures delivered at the Paris Sorbonne this last winter, under the auspices of the Minister of Public Instruction, was by the distinguished naturalist M.
In this attire, with a bundle of dried plants on his back, Rafinesque accidentally approached Audubon and asked where the noted naturalist lived.
In another letter he said, "I have run the gantlet of Europe and may be proud of two things,--I am considered the first ornithological painter and the first practicalnaturalist of America.
I mentioned, this to a naturalist of some repute, with whom I was dining only a few days ago.
The naturalist would never help us to them by any discoveries of the extent of the universe, but is as poor, when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws on their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
Quatrefages de Breau, the distinguished French naturalist and philosopher, says that the revolving apparatus was partially due to M.
Vide "The Rambles of a Naturalist on the Coasts of France, Spain, and Sicily.
Mr. Selous by his observations illustrates the great desirability of having the views of the closet naturalist tested by competent field observers.
Owen's two sons, Robert Dale and William, were still in the vicinity, together with Charles Alexander Lesueur, a French naturalist of repute.
We must again express our public thanks to this intelligent and liberal naturalist for the ornithological specimens then collected.
As a collector we have preserved a series of nearly twenty specimens, and as a naturalist our name is no longer excluded from the Ornithological Nomenclature of New Holland.
Harvard College, by cherishing and honoring the great naturalist she has recently lost, has done more for Massachusetts than by educating hosts of commonplace professional men.
He accompanied the Expedition in the capacity of Doctor, Naturalist and Botanist, and was equipped with a complete collector's outfit.
Finally the services of Mr. Wollaston, well known for his journeys in New Guinea and East Africa, were secured as Medical Officer and Naturalist to the Expedition.
To a naturalist it was a tantalizing place; there were many unfamiliar birds that we had not seen in Tibet, but in such a sacred place I dared not offend the people by taking life, and I even had some qualms in catching butterflies.
Resisting Stapleton's offer of hospitality, Holmes and I set off to Baskerville Hall, leaving the naturalist to return alone.
Looking over, I saw the naturalistpause at the door of an out-house in the corner of the orchard.
Bergson's learning as a naturalist and his eye for the facts--things Aristotle also possessed--he is like Aristotle profoundly out of sympathy with nature.
In such a situation, to halt at appearances might seem the mark of a true naturalist and a true empiricist not misled by speculative haste and the human passion for system and simplification.
He was not a trapper, he was only an amateur naturalistwho wanted to see the beavers at their work, and who thought he was smart enough to catch them at it.
It looked very suspicious indeed; and just before he reached the dam he stopped to reconnoitre, and at once caught sight of the naturalist up in the tree.
The naturalist roosted in the tree till his teeth were chattering and he was fairly blue with cold, and then he scrambled down and went back to his camp, where he had a violent chill.
The amateurnaturalist saw him coming, a dark speck moving swiftly down the pond, with a long V-shaped ripple spreading out behind him like the flanks of a flock of wild geese.
We will conclude this lesson with an anecdote of the methods of that famous naturalist Agassiz, in his training of his pupils.
The naturalist took a fish from a jar in which it had been preserved, and laying it before the young student bade him observe it carefully, and be ready to report upon what he had noticed about the fish.
The instant ournaturalist attempted to desist, the creature raised his paw to strike.
Here a naturalist trembled with anxiety for the fate of a coral; there a bird-fancier worked himself into a small frenzy at the jostling of big parrots.
The earnest naturalist is pretty sure to have obtained that great need of all men, to get rid of self.
Here I cannot resist the temptation to introduce an incident of this kind, but far more wonderful than any one I have related in this or any other book, which was witnessed not by a naturalist but an artist, my friend Mr. R.
The first news I had of it was in a letter, dated December 30, from a naturalist friend, Mr. G.
I do not say a "born naturalist" because I fancy we are most of us that, and yet the countryman who is a naturalist is a rarity.
Ernest Seton-Thompson, naturalist to the Government of Manitoba, author of “Wild Animals I Have Known.
Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, and his brother, Langdon Gibson, naturalist and traveller.
On damp nights (says the Naturalist on the Amazon) the chorus of frogs and toads which swarm in weedy back-yards creates such a bewildering uproar that it is impossible to carry on a conversation in doors except by shouting.
Delight is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who for the first time wanders in a South American forest.
This naturalist never found a single Amblystoma in the neighbourhood of the lakes, “nevertheless the larva (Axolotl) is so common there that it is brought into the market by thousands.
The present work by Professor Weismann, well known for his profound embryological investigations on the Diptera, will appear, I believe, to every naturalist extremely interesting and well deserving of careful study.
The naturalist must always commence with details, and may then afterwards ask whether the totality of details leads him to a general and final basis of intentional design.
The last great geological event which our globe experienced was in fact this Ice Age, and the pure naturalist has not hitherto attributed in my opinion sufficient importance to the direct modifying effects of this prolonged period of cold.
A beautiful illustration of the theory of warning colours is given by Belt in his “Naturalist in Nicaragua,” p.
Mr. Chapman is a naturalist of Gilbert White's school in the keenness and accuracy of his perceptions.
To the northward, in the farthest distance are discernible the dim blue outspurs of the Sierra de Aracena; but beyond its charms to naturalist or sportsman, the district has few other attractions.
Their compilation has been evidently a labour of love to Professor Bell, and his work will be appreciated by all admirers of the naturalist as a labour of love ought to be.
A charming book, of which no true naturalist or sportsman will quickly tire.
Dinner is cooked in the little block-tin camp-stove, or sarten prusiano, as the Spaniards call it, which only demands a modicum of lard and a sharp fire to reduce a rabbit or a duck to eatable state within a few minutes.
The spot, however, was inaccessible owing to deep snow and tremendous canchos which intervened.
It was in vain that the naturalist would deny the divine Author of the universal scheme: he proved it in spite of himself, in so well describing His work.
It was upon this voyage that Darwin made himself the greatest naturalist of all time, and at the same time infected himself with the virus of neurasthenia.
The naturalist probes into codes of conduct, systems of morality, structures of societies, variations in the scales of value that individuals, races and nations have subjected themselves to as custom, law and religion.
