A very modern view of natural science by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree - preview
Bridget Morris looks at this early concern about man and the world
Most of us probably feel none too proud in adulthood when confronted with our feeble school essays In the case of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree an exception can be made Son of the great York chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist Joseph Rowntree, Seebohm later became a pioneer of social reform as well as company chairman of the Rowntree Cocoa Works between 1923 and 1941 At the tender age of sixteen he wrote a prize-winning essay on the subject of ‘The migration of salmon’, which opens: Whilst staying in Braemar in the summer holidays, I went two or three times to see the salmon leap at the river Dee, and wishing to know rather more about these fishes I read the report that Frank Buckland who is nowadays referred to as the David Bellamy of his time wrote for the Government on the subject It is chiefly from his book that I have got the material for the present essay Speaking of this book, I may as well mention here a few things that Buckland has done for the salmon fisheries of Great Britain
Bridget Morris
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