by David L. Witt | Aug 15, 2024 | Seton Essays
Sketch and plan of a Muskrat den at Cos Cob, Conn., July, 1905, from Life-Histories of Northern Animals, 1909 What’s in a name? Apparently, the great Carl Linnaeus believed the Muskrat closely related to beavers, placing the creatures together in the genus Castor...
by David L. Witt | Aug 14, 2024 | Curator's Notes
Best Wishes for 1919 by Ernest Thompson Seton Several years ago, I mentioned five categories of major life accomplishments of Ernest Thompson Seton. His consciousness raising about the consciousness of animals would have been an extraordinary achievement even had...
by David L. Witt | Aug 2, 2024 | Curator's Notes
For decades I have held a personal concern for how frequently Ernest Thompson Seton has been left out of American and world history. More on that another time. For today, following is an article distributed by “Google Alert–Ernest Thompson Seton”...
by David L. Witt | Jul 13, 2024 | Seton Essays
The Singing Mouse, drawing by Ernest Thompson Seton, Academy for the Love of Learning Deer mice and house mice take turns trying to invade my house. This ends badly for them (dispatching traps, never poison) but to give them their due, they keep trying. Seton...
by David L. Witt | Jul 1, 2024 | Seton Essays
Family of Beavers, Ernest Thompson Seton This is an excerpt from Life-Histories of Northern Animals published in 1910. Seton noted that the beaver has “a massive skull of the general squirrel-type.” While he did not say so, this similarity led biologists to...
