0 a person who writes, paints, etc. in the style of naturalism
1 a person who studies plants and animals
Field naturalists collected in the local countryside or explored distant parts of the world and sent specimens back home.
The classification of species was still of vital importance to both field and museum naturalists.
We have not only mathematicians becoming philosophers, but astrologers becoming experimentalists, statesmen becoming naturalists, and alchemists becoming entrepreneurs.
However, it will be of limited use to researchers who are already well versed in these debates, and it will not convert any scientific naturalists.
Given the naturalist's task, we should be clear about what standard, exactly, must be met to make an analysis satisfactory.
Many of the people discussed below are now forgotten; naturalists, physicians, eugenists, psychologists, socialists, professionals and various experts, minor savants of their time.
The exploration of the fossil record also forced naturalists to become more aware of the time dimension.
Further more, rescuing previous texts from oblivion was common practice among many nineteenth-century naturalists.