Old-fashioned natural history

Sometimes 'newer' isn't better

Dec 12, 2024

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A 19th-century print of Bogoslov Peak in the Aleutians. The archipelago forms a biological link between the eastern and western hemispheres. Image from oldprintshop.com.

In the 1930s, the US Biological Survey made a voyage to the Aleutian islands off of Alaska, for the purpose of studying the flora and fauna of that isolated and windswept archipelago. …

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