Afterword: On First Entering Evelyn's Laboratory

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Summary

S. Dillon Ripley recalls his first meeting with G. Evelyn Hutchinson at Yale University. Both discuss and argue over their separate experiences at a festival in Ladakh. Ripley illustrates that the type of relationship he and Hutchinson shared was more than just insects and birds. The two discussed medieval history and environmental research. Summarizes Hutchinson's considerable influence on Ripley and his career.

Subject

  • Hutchinson, G. Evelyn (George Evelyn) 1903-
  • Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
  • Yale University

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

This essay gives a good account of Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley's personality and close/influential relationships in his life.

Contained within

Growth By Intussusception: Ecological Essays in Honor of G. Evelyn Hutchinson Vol. 44 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

December 1972

Topic

  • Autobiography
  • Animals
  • Entomology
  • Birds
  • Ecology
  • History
  • Environmental research
  • Ladakh
  • Ornithology

Place

  • Lada?kh (India)
  • Middle West

Physical description

pp. 439-441

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