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John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
A History of Oregon Ornithology
It’s not often that I find myself presented with the opportunity to write about a new book the subject of which centers upon not only the geographic location in which I’ve spent my entire life (thus far, at least) but also the activity that has defined, and even the very person responsible for putting me on, the strange occupational path I’ve followed these past twenty-five odd years.
Deep Time
News has recently come my way regarding a newly published book from Princeton University Press by Prof. Noah Heringman titled “Deep Time; A Literary History,” in which the professor undertakes a cross-disciplinary exploration of reflections of the title concept in the works of eighteenth and nineteenth century natural historians.
A Disease Still Plaguing Us
Writing in the second book of his “Natural History” (Naturalis Historia), Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), whilst recounting the many interesting facts he has learned and collected about the Moon, suddenly breaks from his explanations to wax critical upon a “disease of the human mind” he has observed.