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 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...
by David L. Witt | Jun 6, 2024 | Seton Essays
Undated squirrel drawing by Seton (not associated with the article) The great migrations of the world: The Wildebeest of Tanzania. The Caribou of Alaska. The Squirrels of New York. (!?) Perhaps not exactly. In between the publication of Life-Histories of Northern...
by David L. Witt | Mar 22, 2024 | Curator's Notes
The on-line version of britannica.com gives a short (and misleading) answer to the question: Who founded the Boy Scouts? Their short answer is: Robert Baden-Powell (a.k.a. “B-P”). But that asks the wrong question, so let’s rephrase: Who came up with the idea that led...
by David L. Witt | Feb 28, 2024 | Seton Essays
Woodchuck details, Ernest Thompson Seton (This is an excerpt from Life-Histories of Northern Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton. Published in October 1909, Seton chronicled the lives of 60 species in a massive two-volume work including ecological and behavioral...
