The word “descriptive,” in science, “is a pejorative” and is “almost always preceded by ‘merely,’” according to David A. Grimaldi, a zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, ...

THE science of oceanography is slowly coming into its own, and it has advanced greatly in the last twenty years; but still, of those who think of it at all, many people know very little what it is. It ...