I'm an historian of science and amateur naturalist.

I became interested in taxonomy while writing my master's thesis on Ruth Patrick's ecological program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (article).

"When an ecologist says, 'there goes a badger,' he should include in his thoughts some definite idea of the animal's place in the community to which it belongs, just as if he had said, 'there goes the vicar.'" Charles Elton, Animal Ecology (1927)

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