- Ernest Ingersoll
Ernest Ingersoll (
March 13 ,1852 —November 13 ,1946 ) was a renowned American naturalist, writer and explorer.A native of
Monroe, Michigan , Ingersoll studied for a time atOberlin College and afterward atHarvard University , where he was a pupil ofLouis Agassiz . He went West as naturalist in the Hayden surveys of 1874 and 1877, and did much work with theUnited States Fish Commission .He became widely known as a writer of specialized magazine articles, numerous guide books and as a lecturer on scientific subjects. He also contributed to the
New International Encyclopedia .Ernest Ingersoll was 94 years old when he died in
Brattleboro, Vermont after a four-year illness.A selection of books by Ernest Ingersoll
* "Nests and Eggs of North American Birds", parts i-vii (1880-81)
* "Oyster Industries of the United States" (1881)
* "Knocking 'round the Rockies" (1883)
* "The Ice Queen" (1884)
* "The Crest of the Continent" (1885)
* "Down East Latch Strings" (1887)
* "Wild Neighbors" (1897)
* "The Book of the Ocean" (1898)
* "Nature's Calendar" (1900)
* "Wild Life of Orchard and Field" (1902)
* "Life of Animals: The Mammals" (1906; second edition, 1907)
* "Eight Secrets" (1906)
* "The Wit of the Wild" (1906)
* "Animal Competitors" (1911)
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