http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2009/11/30/strange-creatures/ Lita Judge Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2009/11/30/strange-creatures/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Lita Judge Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:49:49 +0000 http://wpblog.litajudge.com/?p=1006#comment-1017 Thanks Tricia. There's an interesting connection in how I found this story. My grandparents (who were ornithologists) where great friends with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_W._Mayr" rel="nofollow">Ernst Mayr</a>, the evolutionary biologist, who worked many years at the American Museum of Natural History (in New York) and then at Harvard. In 1927 Mayr was sent to New Guinea by <em>Walter Rothschild</em> to collect bird species. There were rumors that Mayr had been killed -- not many people traveled into New Guinea back then. But the rumors were false and he eventually returned and became curator of bird specimens at the American Museum of Natural History where he acquired Rothschild's enormous collection of bird skins. Thanks Tricia. There’s an interesting connection in how I found this story. My grandparents (who were ornithologists) where great friends with Ernst Mayr, the evolutionary biologist, who worked many years at the American Museum of Natural History (in New York) and then at Harvard. In 1927 Mayr was sent to New Guinea by Walter Rothschild to collect bird species. There were rumors that Mayr had been killed — not many people traveled into New Guinea back then. But the rumors were false and he eventually returned and became curator of bird specimens at the American Museum of Natural History where he acquired Rothschild’s enormous collection of bird skins.

]]> http://wpblog.litajudge.com/2009/11/30/strange-creatures/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Tricia Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:32:24 +0000 http://wpblog.litajudge.com/?p=1006#comment-1015 I love the images you've shared. You find such interesting people to write about. I can't wait to read this one! I love the images you’ve shared. You find such interesting people to write about. I can’t wait to read this one!

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