Biological Adventurers (Papers to 1967)
Biological Adventurers is a survey by Keith Denis on pages 16–20 of Papers to 1967 of early naturalists and sources on the plants and animals of Lake Superior's north shore, adapted from a talk to the North Shore Historical Assembly in Two Harbors, Minnesota, on 10 September 1966.[1]
Key facts
It runs from French and fur-trade records through the 1848 Louis Agassiz expedition and later collectors to twentieth-century surveys. Local figures named include Lionel S. Dear (1883–1959), who wrote Breeding Birds of the Region of Thunder Bay (1940) and took the lead in founding the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists Club in 1933, and the insect collector Horace Dawson (about 1895–1910).[2]
References
- ↑ Keith Denis, "Biological Adventurers", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), p. 16. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ Keith Denis, "Biological Adventurers", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), p. 20. Archived: datum.locker.