Aronnax's little library is lined with bookshelves, all of them carefully set away from the fire. There is a chair in front of that fire, and a desk a little to one side. There's a tea kettle swang over the fire, about to whistle ( Read more... )

The Captain has returned!

*happy*

I have missed him extremely, and am glad to see him back.

Also, this little answer to an old puzzle delights me. Ah, life! How varied and strange you are!

Intriguing method for revitalizing an unstable population of sharks.

SQUEE! So cool, omigosh squeeeeee! Most ingenious. I am once again quite impressed with the resourcefulness and imagination mustered by my latter day naturalist brethren.

Squeeeeeeeeeeeee! *flailflail*

I do wish the Captain was here. This would interest him considerbly.

Capture of an exceddingly large specimen of ictalurus furcatus.

Very interesting. I am always amazed by the extent to which an aquatic environment allows for massive growth. Squeee! Fifty-six and a quarter kilograms is a very respectable weight.

On another note, related by region by not much else, I have had the opportunity to observe a gavia ( Read more... )

New family of Rodents identified in Laos.

Squee! Intriguing. And amusing, to see that in a century and a half discoveries in the field of zoology take place in much the same way they always did.

Squee!

I have had a letter from the Captain. This must be a short entry, but I am melted very happy. He asked after me! He wants to be alone with me! I know he cares for me, and loves me, but I never cease to be amazed by the reminder.I shall reply in the morning ( Read more... )

For example: This report on a tracking device attached to a carcharodon carcharias.

*drools* I want one. Guh. Immensely useful, I'm sure.

I am not pleased with the present situation. Hades is too high handed by far. I could not bear to loose the Captain. I cannot think of what I should do if ( Read more... )

( For Nemo: )

I am going to be late! I am going to be late, and it's really all the fault of the people down at the museum because they ambushed me while I was packing my notebooks and scribbling my last notes on my exhibit plan and dragged me off to a party and then would not let me leave. "Oh, but Pierre," the same colleague I mentioned yesterday told me, " ( Read more... )

I have put in for a leave of absence from the museum, which surprised no one. I do tend to simply vanish for large blocks of time. One of my colleagues told me today that he worries about me if I don’t “take off for six months or so with no word - actually, I think the telegrams are the worst part. They always say something like: ‘Nearly eaten by ( Read more... )