This review of "Naturalist" in the NYTimes gives some flavor of events: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/wilson-naturalist.h

This review of "Naturalist" in the NYTimes gives some flavor of events: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/wilson-naturalist.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/s... The book itself is well worth reading - it's a wonderful scientific autobiography written by, for my money, the best science writer of the last century.