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Visionary Science Of The “Harvard Barbarians”, Catherine Schmitt Mar 2017

Visionary Science Of The “Harvard Barbarians”, Catherine Schmitt

Catherine Schmitt

For over two months during the summer of 1880, eight young members of the Champlain Society made daily excursions, on foot and by boat, around Mount Desert Island. They collected plants and birds, and dredged small animals from the mud of Somes Sound. They stared at the rocks along shore and took photographs. Under the leadership of “Captain” Charles Eliot, son of Harvard President Charles William Eliot, the students were on the Island for the summer to “do some work in some branch of natural history or science.”


A Coastal Companion: A Year In The Gulf Of Maine, From Cape Cod To Canada, Catherine Schmitt Mar 2014

A Coastal Companion: A Year In The Gulf Of Maine, From Cape Cod To Canada, Catherine Schmitt

Catherine Schmitt

A Coastal Companion is a journey through the year in the Gulf of Maine and its watershed, which includes land from eastern Massachusetts to southwestern Nova Scotia. A chronicle of changes through the seasons both above and within the sea, A Coastal Companion follows the arrival and departure of migrating shorebirds in spring and fall, schools of fish as they move in and out of our region, and the natural cycles of our bays, rivers, marshes, and coastal forests. Part field guide, part almanac, the book also highlights writers, artists, and scientists who have chosen the Gulf of Maine as …


Editor's Note, Catherine Schmitt Mar 2014

Editor's Note, Catherine Schmitt

Catherine Schmitt

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How The Presidents Ate Their Salmon, Catherine Schmitt Dec 2012

How The Presidents Ate Their Salmon, Catherine Schmitt

Catherine Schmitt

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