Lay research on turtles, and the evolution of scholarly journals

Easty, resident Terrapene carolina triunguis at Casa Adams Wedel, sometime gnawer of rat skulls, whose recent exploits will be detailed in future posts. In Archie Carr's encyclopedic "Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California", first published in 1952, he quotes favorably and at length the observations of "Mrs.