Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Ralph Vary Chamberlin
Born: January 3, 1879
Died: October 31, 1967 (aged 88)
Bio: Ralph Vary Chamberlin was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Known for:
- Checklist of the Millipeds of North America (1958)
- The meaning of organic evolution (1911)
- Life and Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin (1925)
- On Mexican Centipeds: Biological Series, V7 (1943)