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Ruth Crosby Noble - Wikipedia

Ruth Crosby Noble Ruth Crosby Noble (1896/1897 – March 1988) was an American author and herpetologist. Working for the American Museum of Natural History, she and her husband Gladwyn Kingsley Noble discovered a new species of frog, the Eleutherodactylus ruthae, named for her. Noble later authored The Nature of the Beast, a book on animal behavior.

Ruth Crosby Noble

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Noble circa 1918 Born

Life and career

Ruth Crosby 1896 or 1897

Died

Born Ruth Crosby in 1896 or 1897,[1] she was brought up in Alma mater Hartford, Connecticut, and studied at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. While a student there, she met her future Occupation husband, Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, then a student at Harvard Spouse(s) University.[2] She later moved to New York, and worked as an assistant at the departments of education[3] and herpetology[2] of the American Museum of Natural History from 1919 until 1923.[3] At the to make museum exhibits more accessible to blind people.[2]

Allendale Wellesley College Writer Gladwyn Kingsley Noble

museum, she worked

While at the museum, the Nobles undertook an expedition to Hispaniola to study the rhinoceros iguana and the Hispaniolan giant tree frog, both of which were very poorly known to science at the time. The Nobles were able to capture and send to the museum more than 200 live frogs and 40 iguanas: Gladwyn Noble would write that they had been "fortunate in finding both forms and in working out their life histories".[4] She and her husband discovered the frog Eleutherodactylus ruthae during an expedition in the Dominican Republic financed by the museum; the frog was named after Ruth by her husband.[2] While working at the museum, she pursued a master's degree at Columbia University.[3] In 1945,[5] Noble published The Nature of the Beast, a book written in on animal behavior based on research and notes of her husband.[1] It is a compendium work written in easy-to-understand English,[6][7][8] and incorporated material from both natural history observations and laboratory experiments.[5] Recurring themes in its 17 chapters include social relations and sensation in animals.[5][9] The manuscript was read by both psychologists and naturalists prior to publication: Robert Yerkes, Frank Beach, and Ernst Mayr were among those given access to portions of it.[5] A review of the book in the Psychological Bulletin commended the breadth with which its material

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was covered without sacrificing detail, and recommended its use in courses on comparative psychology.[5] Writing in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, a reviewer stated that the book had the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value".[9]

Death Noble died on March 15[1] or March 27,[3][10] 1988, aged 91, at a nursing home in Allendale, New Jersey.[1]

Selected works Noble, G. Kingsley; Noble, Ruth C. (August 20, 1923). "The Anderson tree frog (Hyla andersonii Baird)—Observations on its habits and life history". Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society. 2 (18): 416–455. doi:10.5962/p.206603 (http s://doi.org/10.5962%2Fp.206603).

References 1. "Ruth Crosby Noble, Author, 91" (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/31/obituaries/ruth-crosby-n oble-author-91.html). The New York Times. March 31, 1988. 2. Fitzgerald, Helen (March 27, 1927). "Woman hunts giant Saurians" (https://www.newspapers.c om/clip/89002342/woman-hunts-giant-saurians/). The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 89. 3. "Museum community is saddened by the passing of four" (https://archive.org/details/grapevine 4049amer/page/n4/mode/1up). Grapevine. New York, N.Y.: Employees' Benefit Association of the American Museum of Natural History. 40 (1). January–February 1983. 4. Rader, Karen A.; Cain, Victoria E. M. (2014). Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press. pp. 61–62. doi:10.7208/9780226079837-004 (https://doi.org/10.7208%2F9780226079837-004). 5. Carpenter, C. R. (1945). "Review of The Nature of the Beast". Psychological Bulletin. 42 (7): 482–483. doi:10.1037/h0050087 (https://doi.org/10.1037%2Fh0050087). 6. "Superior mind of man is puzzled by lack of mind in lower animals" (https://www.newspapers.c om/clip/89002573/superior-mind/). The Kansas City Star. April 11, 1945. p. 22. 7. Newton, Donald (October 29, 1945). "Life's report: Animals are not human" (https://books.goog le.com/books?id=tEsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18). Life. Time Inc. p. 18. 8. Harvey, Mark W. T. (July 1, 2014). The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser (https://books. google.com/books?id=eoaSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA40). University of Washington Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-295-80515-3. 9. L., A. W. (September 1, 1945). "The Nature of the Beast". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 38 (3): 454. doi:10.1093/aesa/38.3.454 (https://doi.org/10.1093%2Faesa%2F38.3. 454). 10. "Ruth Crosby Noble, 91, former trustee" (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89010228/obituaryfor-ruth-crosby-noble-aged-91/). The Record. March 30, 1988 – via newspapers.com. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Crosby_Noble&oldid=1059700855"

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