by David L. Witt | Nov 29, 2024 | Curator's Notes
The Natural History of the Ten Commandments by Ernest Thompson Seton must be his most unusual book. While he had significant grounding in fundamentalist—Calvinist bible study, he had long since given up on organized Christianity. Published in 1907 (the same year as...
by David L. Witt | Nov 9, 2024 | Seton Essays
Pocket Gopher by Ernest Thompson Seton 1892 Seton was the first to publish that in some places the Pocket Gopher provides a service practiced elsewhere by earthworms: aeration of the soil. (He devoted many pages of Life-Histories of Northern Animals to...
by David L. Witt | Oct 26, 2024 | Guest Writers
Title Page detail, Companions on the Trail Passing the seventy-eighth anniversary of Seton’s death (October 23), I will note that of all his recent biographers, only Jack Samson actually knew him. Fortunately, Seton met the novelist and memoir writer...
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...
