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  • Louis Agassiz; Hashime Murayama; National Georgrphic Society Fuertes

    Verlag: National Geographic Society; Press of Judd & Detweiler Inc

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1935

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). Presumed First Edition/First Printing. [8], 252, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). With Sixty-four pages Reproducing over 500 Insects and Spiders and their Habits in Their Natural Colors. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. The contributing authors are: William James Showalter, James I. Hambleton, W. M. Mann, Jennie E. Harris, Henry E. Ewing, and Lee Passmore. William Joseph Showalter was born on July 10, 1878. He was a Teacher, public schools, Virginia, 1896-1898. City editor Harrisonburg Daily News, 1898-1901. Joined Washington (District of Columbia) Bureau New York Journal, 1901. Editorial writer Democratic Congressional Committee, 1902. Washington correspondent Virginia and West Virginia newspapers, 1902-1907. Writer for Haskin Syndicate, 1907-1913. Editor Staunton (Virginia) Daily News and Harrisonburg (Virginia) Daily News Record. 1913-1915; Assistant to editor, assistant editor, staff writer and chief of the division of research, National Geography Magazine, starting in 1914.James I. Hambleton was a Senior Apiculturist with the Department of Agriculture. The Beekeeping Bibliography had its beginning in 1925 when James I. Hambleton, Chief, Division of Bee Culture, Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, brought together the books, pamphlets, and periodicals formerly kept in individual offices of the Division. Material from medical, biological, agricultural, and other non-beekeeping periodicals and abstract journals were indexed regularly by the librarian to reflect the changing interests of the scientists employed by the Division of Bee Culture. William M. Mann (1886-1960) was a notable entomologist and the fifth director of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. from 1925 until 1956. In 1921, he travelled on the Mulford Expedition to the Amazon. In 1926, he married Lucile Quarry Mann. The two worked together as a team to improve and promote the zoo, including going on expeditions around the world to collect live specimens for the zoo's collection.Lee Passmore (1874-1958) was an American photographer and field naturalist who worked with scientists and staff at the San Diego Natural History Museum documenting the flora and fauna of southern California. Passmore published photo-essays on natural history subjects in popular magazines from the 1920s to the 1940s, and contributed photographs to several natural history monographsEwing, Henry Ellsworth was born on February 11, 1883. Student Knox College, 1902-1904. Bachelor of Arts, University of Illinois, 1906, A.M., 1908. Doctor of Philosophy., Cornell University, 1911. Science teacher Marshall (Illinois) High School, 1908-1909. Assistant in zoology, Iowa State College, 1909-1910. Schuyler fellow Cornell University, 1910-1911. Assistant entomologist Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911-1914. Assistant professor of entomology, Iowa State College, 1914-1916, associate professor, 1916-1919. Specialist bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, 1919-1923, associate entomologist, 1923-1929, entomologist, 1929-1945, collaborator from 1947.Hashime Murayama (1879-1954) was a Japanese American painter. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. His work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine from 1921 to 1941. The National Geographic Society hired Murayama in 1921. As an artist at National Geographic, he paid meticulous attention to his drawings, adding his distinct style to them and making them instantly popular. He painted fish, which were his personal favorite, frogs, spiders, ants, honeybees, wasps, and butterflies. To get sources from which to study, he kept bug specimens in a jar and visited aquariums to look at frogs, trout and salmon. After a career of over twenty years as an artist, Murayama was fired in September 1941 for being an immigrant (and because Japan-United States relations were about to be severed due to the attack on Pearl Harbor) and placed under arrest.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1926

    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA

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    Wraps. Zustand: Fair. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). [22 pages of advertisements], pages 1-126, [and 20 pages of advertisements]. Illustrations (with twelve pages in full color. Map. Cover has substantial wear and soiling and spine tears. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor. This issue includes: On the Trail of the Air Mail with 68 Illustrations by J. Parker Van Zandt; Man's Feathered Friends of Longest Standing with 35 Illustrations by Elisha Hanson; Pigeons of Resplendent Plumage with 12 Paintings from Life by Hashime Murayama; and Measuring the Sun's Heat and Forecasting the Weather with 16 Illustrations by C. G. Abbot. J. Parker Van Zandt, 96 was an aviation pioneer. Van Zandt, who held the 17th pilot's license issued by the government was director of aviation research at the Brookings Institute and wrote on aviation. He flew with the U.S. Signal Corps during WWI. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.

  • La Gorce, John Oliver (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1961

    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hashime Murayama, Jacqueline Hutton, Craig Phillip (illustrator). Third Printing of this 1961 edition. xi, [1], 339, [] pages. With 337 Illustrations. List of Species. The better-known food and game fishes and the aquatic life of the coastal and inland waters of North America. 236 species in color with biographies. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Copyrighted material dated 1952, 1958, 1961. It is presumed that this includes extension of previous copyrights from the 1920s. This includes sections by John Oliver La Gorce, Charles Haskins Townsend, Leonard P. Schultz, Luis Marden, Gilbert Grosvenor La Gorce, John T. Nichols, Paul A. Zahl, Louis L. Mowbray, Allan Villiers, Van Campen Heilner, Roy Waldo Miner, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, David Hellyer, and Hilary B. Moore. Among the short form chapter titles are: Harvest of the Sea, Fresh Waters, Pacific Coast Streams, Angling, Marineland, Gulf Stream, Man-of-War, Bimini, Devilfish, Tarpon, Aqualungs, Goggle Fishing, John Oliver La Gorce (1880-1959) was an American writer and explorer known for his work in the National Geographic Society. He served as Associate Editor of the Society from 1905 to 1922, Vice President from 1922 to 1954, and President from 1954 to 1957, before retiring at the age of 77. He also write many articles for the Magazine. His biggest interest was perhaps in fishes, and in 1919 he participated in a hunt that brought in a 22-foot manta ray, the world's biggest to date. He also helped produce the world's first underwater photographs in 1926, and edited all versions of the National Geographic's The Book of Fishes. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (1910 - 1997), was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung and pioneered marine conservation.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1931

    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA

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    Wraps. Zustand: Good. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). [24 pages of advertisements], pages 261-390, [and 30 pages of advertisements]. Illustrations (with thirty-two pages in full color). Maps. Cover has wear and soiling. Some damp signs and fore-edge. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor. This issue includes: Visits to the Old Inns of England with 17 illustrations by Harold Donaldson Eberlein; Cradles of English History with 15 Natural Color Photographs by Clifton Adams; Tropical Toy Fishes with 20 illustrations by Ida Mellen; Iridescent Denizens of the Miniature Aquarius with 8 paintings from life by Hasmine Murayama; On the World's Highest Plateaus with 40 illustrations by Hellmut de Terra; Life on the Steppes and Oases of Chinese Turkestan with 32 Natural Color photographs by W. Bossard; and Crusader Castles of the Near East with 20 illustrations by William H. Hall. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1930

    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA

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    Wraps. Zustand: Good. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). 36 pages of advertisements, 261-392 pages, 40 pages of advertisements. Illustrations. Twenty-four Illustrations in Full Color. Map. Cover has some wear and soiling. Minor damp signs at edges. Spine torn at bottom. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication to featuring extensive pictorial content. Included in this issue are: Flying the World's Longest Air-Mail Route with 66 Illustrations by Junius B. Wood; Fowls of Forest and Stream Tamed by Man with 27 Illustrations by Morley A. Jull; Fowls of Field, Park and Farmyard with 16 painting from life by Hashime Murayama; Approaching Washington by Tidewater Potomac with 7 Illustrations by Paul Wilstach; and Secrets of Washington's Lure with 15 Natural-Color Illustrations. Hashime Murayama (1879-1954) was a Japanese American painter. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. Some of his work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine from 1921 to 1941. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1929

    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA

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    Wraps. Zustand: Fair. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). 20 pages of advertisements, 1-130 pages, 18 pages of advertisements. Illustrations. Twenty-four Illustrations in Full Color. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some wear at spine. Some foreedge damp signs. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication to featuring extensive pictorial content. Included in this issue are: Exploring the Wonders of the Insect World with 50 Illustrations by William Joseph Showalter; Insect Rivals of the Rainbow with 24 pages of Natural-Color photographs and paintings by Edwin L. Wisherd and Hashime Murayama; The Sealing Saga of Newfoundland with 44 Illustrations by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. William Joseph Showalter, American editor received Decorated Order of Bolivar by Government of Venezuela, 1912, as writer on Latin-American topics. Captain Robert (Bob) Abram Bartlett (August 15, 1875 - April 28, 1946) was a Newfoundland navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hashime Murayama noted nature artist. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

  • Murayama,Hashime.

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    Washington, 1930. 327-372 pp. Ills. Soft cover. (Nat. Geogr. Mag, March, 1930).

  • La Gorce, John Oliver (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1939

    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USA

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ present. Hashime Murayama and Else Bostelmann (illustrator). [10], 367, [3] pages. With 443 Color Portraits, 102 Biographies, and 162 Photographs. Individual sections have copyrights from 1919, 1921, 1922, 1923,1924, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939. Extensive Biographies of designated fishes familiar to American waters. Index. Some endpaper foxing. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper discoloration. A portion of the title page has been cut off. This includes sections by John Oliver La Gorce, Charles Haskins Townsend, Louis L. Mowbray, John T. Nichols, Leonard P. Schultz, Roy Waldo Miner, Can Campen Heilner,Russell Maloney, and Imogene Powell. Original paintings by Hashime Murayame and Else Bostelmann. John Oliver La Gorce (1880-1959) was an American writer and explorer known for his work in the National Geographic Society. He served as Associate Editor of the Society from 1905 to 1922, Vice President from 1922 to 1954, and President from 1954 to 1957, before retiring at the age of 77. He also write many articles for the Magazine. His biggest interest was perhaps in fishes, and in 1919 he participated in a hunt that brought in a 22-foot manta ray, the world's biggest to date. He also helped produce the world's first underwater photographs in 1926, and edited all versions of the National Geographic's The Book of Fishes. Charles Haskins Townsend, Sc.D. (September 29, 1859 ? January 28, 1944) was an American zoologist. In 1883, he became assistant United States Fish Commissioner in charge of salmon propagation in California. For a time, he was in charge of deep-sea explorations on the USS Albatross.[3] From 1897 to 1902, he served as chief of the Fish Commission's fisheries division. He then served as director of the New York Aquarium at Castle Garden, from 1902 until his retirement in 1937. Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray was a Bermudian naturalist. Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray was hired by the Bermuda Natural History Society as director for Bermuda's first aquarium. In 1911 he became director of the South Boston Aquarium which he ran for three years. In 1914, he became superintendent of the New York Aquarium. In 1928 he became director of the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo which he ran until 1944. Mowbray successfully bred the first Galapagos tortoises and Galapagos penguins in captivity. Hashime Murayama (1879?1954) was a Japanese American painter. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. His work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine from 1921 to 1941. As an artist at National Geographic, he paid meticulous attention to his drawings, adding his distinct style to them and making them instantly popular. Fish were his personal favorites. To get sources from which to study, he kept bug specimens in a jar and visited aquariums to look at frogs, trout and salmon. After a career of over twenty years as an artist, Murayama was fired in September 1941 for being an immigrant (and because Japan-United States relations were about to be severed due to the attack on Pearl Harbor) and placed under arrest. Revised and Enlarged Edition, presumed first printing thus.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1927

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    Wraps. Zustand: Good. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). [38 pages of advertisements], pages 379-500, [and 40 pages of advertisements] plus covers. Twenty-nine Illustrations in full color. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication to featuring extensive pictorial content. Included in this issue are: The Races of Domestic Fowl with 67 illustrations by M. A. Jull; Fowl of the Old and New World with 29 Paintings from Life by Hashime Murayama; America's Debt to the Hen with 15 illustrations by Harry R. Lewis; and The Chinese: Farmers Since the Days of Noah with 37 illustrations by Adam Warwick. Hashime Murayama (1879-1954) was a Japanese American painter. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. Some of his work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine from 1921 to 1941. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.

  • Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Hashime Murayama

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society

    Anbieter: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, USA

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    Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Dampstained. Bookplate inside. (dogs, animals, art).

  • La Gorce, John Oliver (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1924

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). [10], 243, [3] pages. With 134 Illustrations. Color Plates of 92 Familiar Salt and Fresh-Water Fishes. Individual sections have copyrights from 1912, 1913, 1919, 1921, 1922, and 1923. Extensive Biographies of designated fishes familiar to American waters. Index. Some endpaper foxing. Cover has some wear and soiling. This includes sections by John Oliver La Gorce, Charles Haskins Townsend, Louis L. Mowbray, John T. Nichols, Hugh M. Smith, and Frederick William Wallace. John Oliver La Gorce (1880-1959) was an American writer and explorer known for his work in the National Geographic Society. He served as Associate Editor of the Society from 1905 to 1922, Vice President from 1922 to 1954, and President from 1954 to 1957, before retiring at the age of 77. He also write many articles for the Magazine. His biggest interest was perhaps in fishes, and in 1919 he participated in a hunt that brought in a 22-foot manta ray, the world's biggest to date. He also helped produce the world's first underwater photographs in 1926, and edited all versions of the National Geographic's The Book of Fishes. Charles Haskins Townsend, Sc.D. (September 29, 1859 - January 28, 1944) was an American zoologist. In 1883, he became assistant United States Fish Commissioner in charge of salmon propagation in California. For a time, he was in charge of deep-sea explorations on the USS Albatross.[3] From 1897 to 1902, he served as chief of the Fish Commission's fisheries division. He then served as director of the New York Aquarium at Castle Garden, from 1902 until his retirement in 1937. Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray was a Bermudian naturalist. Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray was hired by the Bermuda Natural History Society as director for Bermuda's first aquarium. In 1911 he became director of the South Boston Aquarium which he ran for three years. In 1914, he became superintendent of the New York Aquarium. In 1928 he became director of the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo which he ran until 1944. Mowbray successfully bred the first Galapagos tortoises and Galapagos penguins in captivity. During John Treadwell Nichols' career at the American Museum of Natural History, he not only over-saw the development of the Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology when it was organized in 1909, but he became the first curator of the newly separated Department of Ichthyology in 1919 after Bashford Dean stepped down. In addition, Nichols founded the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) and its journal, Copeia, out of his small office here in 1913 while still in his twenties. Hugh McCormick Smith, also H. M. Smith (November 21, 1865 - September 28, 1941) was an American ichthyologist and administrator in the Bureau of Fisheries. He began working for the U. S. Fish Commission in 1886. He directed the scientific research centre there from 1897 to 1903. From 1901 to 1902, he directed the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. From 1907â"1910 he led the Philippine Expedition aboard the USS Albatross. He was an associate editor of the National Geographic Society from 1909 to 1919. He was the author of many publications about fish. He was deputy commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1903â"1913) and then commissioner (1913â"1922). From 1933 he was curator of zoology at the Smithsonian Institution until 1941. Frederick William Wallace (11 December 1886 - 15 July 1958) was a journalist, photographer, historian and novelist. He edited the monthly journal Canadian Fisherman for forty years. This publication, which ran from 1917 to 1970, remains an important source of information for researchers today. Hashime Murayama (1879-1954) was a Japanese American painter. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. His work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine from 1921 to 1941. As an artist at National Geographic, he paid meticulous attention to his drawings, adding his distinct sty.

  • Grosvenor, Gilbert (Editor)

    Verlag: The National Geographic Society, Washington DC, 1936

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    Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Hashime Murayama (illustrator). [12 pages of advertisements], pages 1-164, [and 8 pages of advertisements]. Illustrations (with twenty-four pages in full color. Map. Cover slightly worn and lightly soiled. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor.This in one of the most significant issues and includes: Man's Farthest Aloft by Capt. Albert W. Stevens with 40 Illustrations, With the Nomads of Central Asia by Edward Murray with 44 Illustrations, Faces and Fashions of Asia'a Changeless Tribes by Alexandre Iacovless with 26 paintings and drawings, Birds of the Northern Seas by alexander Wetmore with 12 Illustrations, Auks and Their Northland Neighbors by Maj. Allan Brooks with 34 paintings from Life, and the famous article The National Geographic Society and Its Magazine by Gilbert Grosvenor with 24 Illustrations.Albert William Stevens (March 13, 1886 - March 26, 1949) was an officer in the United States Army Air Corps, balloonist and aerial photographer. Stevens took the first photograph of the Earth in a way that the horizon's curvature is visible. Stevens took the first photograph of the Moon's shadow projected onto the Earth during a solar eclipse in August, 1932. On 11 November 1935 Stevens, along with Captain Orvil A. Anderson of the Army Air Corps, made a record balloon ascent from near Rapid City, South Dakota. Millions listened to a live NBC broadcast. Their sealed gondola Explorer II climbed to 72,395 feet, nearly 14 miles (23 km), a record unequaled until 1956.Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (also spelt Iacovleff 25 June [O.S. 13 June] 1887 - 12 May 1938) was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher. 1924 and 1925 he took part in an expedition to the Sahara desert and Equatorial Africa organized by Citroën (Croisi-24re Noire). His African paintings were a big success and as a result Jacovleff was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1926. In 1928, Jacovleff organized a large personal exhibition in Moscow. Between 1931 and 1932, he was the Artistic Adviser of another Citroën expedition, this time across Asia. He traveled through Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia and China, and created a number of orientalist paintingsFrank Alexander Wetmore (June 18, 1886 - December 7, 1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist. He was the sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1924, Wetmore joined the Smithsonian Institution as the superintendent of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. In 1925, Wetmore was appointed assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, becoming secretary between 1945 and 1952.Allan Cyril Brooks (February 15, 1869 Etawah - January 3, 1946) was an ornithologist and bird artist. His painting style was more impressionist with a greater emphasis on the habitat than on fine details of plumage. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (October 28, 1875 - February 4, 1966), father of photojournalism, was the first full-time editor of National Geographic. Grosvenor is credited with building the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today. As President of the National Geographic Society, he assisted its rise.