Naturalist Muir Now Here. One of the World's Great Scientists and Known to All Students of Geology, Botany. . . . With Roosevelt in Yosemite, President Specially Asked Great Naturalist to Accompany Him, Give Benefit of His Vast Knowledge.
THE MANILA CABLENEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 190*; NATURALIST MUIR NOW HERE One of the World's Great Scientists and Knows to All Students of Geology, Botany, Etc* WITH ROOSEVELT IN YOSEMITE the great naturalist. They spent some months in the study of Russian forests and Muir parted from Sargent at Ho...
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| Summary: | THE MANILA CABLENEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 190*; NATURALIST MUIR NOW HERE One of the World's Great Scientists and Knows to All Students of Geology, Botany, Etc* WITH ROOSEVELT IN YOSEMITE the great naturalist. They spent some months in the study of Russian forests and Muir parted from Sargent at Hongkong and went 1 alone to Singapore. Then by easy- stages he traveled through India Egypt and the nearby countries observing' the natural feature? which struck him. and storing ir h's wonderful mind the comparison with other countries' growths, He drifted to Australia and New Zealand and was on h s way to Hongkong from there when found in Manila by Captain Ahern h'mself a naturalist of note. Ahern would not hear of his continuinrj his journey on the Empire bur persuaded him to remain for the Rub'. Yesterday Muir arid Ahern went, to Limao. in Bataan brcvi'n- ce, where the forestry bttrean has jrimenital station. Muir Preside at Specially Asked Great Naturalist to Accompany Him, Give Beaefit of his Vast Knowledge, John Muir is here. He is a guest of Captain George P. Ahern, U. S. A., chief of the forestry bureau, at his home in Calle Galle'ra. He will stay only "two days, and his remaining more than a few hours is due to. Captain Ahem's insistent hospitality. John Muir is one of the greatest naturalists in the world. His name is a household word wherever a student of botany, a geographer or explorer livesy and his fame is founded on enduring.lines. The great glacier in Alaska named after him, which will probably exist as long as does this, sphere. is the most striking monument to his work and character. He is a Scotchman by birth, 66 years old, and was educated in Scotland and Wisconsin. He went to Alaska in 1879 and spent 20 years there engaged in exph> ration. He located nearly 70 glaciers among the Sierra peaks where the leading geologists thought, therewere none. He discovered Glacier Bay arid the great glacier called Muir glacier. He is the author of the-Mountains of California, and several hundred other arcticles ... |
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