The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-18
EXPLORER CHERRIE TO LECTURE
Will Speak Five Times at Johnson Nor.
NAL School, Beginning July 81.

George Kruck Cherrie, noted natural
list, companion of Roosevelt on Brazilian
trip, will give five lectures at the state
normal school, johnson. Mr.. Cherrie,
known to many Vermonters but I'M
known to many others, lives with his
family on a farm in Newfane, when he
is not carrying on scientific explorations
in South America. He has just returned
from his 22d trip to that country, where
he has made expeditions under the aus
pieces of most of the natural history mu-
seums of this country and New England.
No one who lives within driving distance
of johnson should miss hearing this not
ed explorer. He viii give five lectures
at the normal school, beginning Monday
evening, July Il, at o'clock and giving
one lecture each evening during the week,
the last one being on Friday, July 25.
Most of these will be illustrated. A
small fee will be charged.
When Mr.. Roosevelt was making up
his party in 1913 for his trip through
South America he notified the author
tiles of the American Museum of Nat
ural History, asking them if they cared
to send two naturalists with them to
make collecting trip for the museum.
Mr. Cherrie was at once chosen as one
of these naturalists.
In his book Through the Brazilian
Wilderness Mr.. Roosevelt pays many
splendid tributes to Mr.. Cherrie, both as
man and as naturalist. Following
are some excerpts concerning Mr.. Cherrie
taken from Mr. Roosevelt's book:
l. "Cherrie was an older man born in
Iowa, but now farmer in Vermont. He
had wife and six children. Mrs. Cher
RE had accompanied him during two or
three years of their early married life in
his collecting trips along the Orinoco,
Their second child was born when they
were in camp a couple of hundred miles
from any white man or woman. One
night few weeks later they were
obliged to leave camping place, where
they had intended to spend the night,
because the baby was fretful, and its
cries attracted jaguar, which prowled
nearer and nearer in the twilight until
they thought it safest once more to put
out into the open river and seek new
resting place. Cherrie had spent about
% years collecting in the American trop-
les. Like most of the field naturalsts
] have met, he was an unusually efficient
and fearless man"
2. "Cherrie and Miller had spent a
week there collecting mammals and birds
prior to my arrival at Asuncion. They
were veterans of the tropics, hardened
to the insect plaques Of Guiana and the
Orinoco, but they never had been so tor
tured as in the Chaco."
z # fharrin Ia not nn1y an
ingly efficient naturalist and explorer in
the tropics, but is also a thoroughly good
citizen in Vermont. He and the colonel
and Kermit and / talked over school
matters at length, and were in hearty
accord as to the vital educational needs
of both Brazil and the United States.
Mr., Cherrie is the chairman of the school
board of the town of Newfane."
4. "The two latter, Cherrie and Miller,
had SO far done the hardest and the best
work of the expedition. They had col
lected about a thousand birds and two
hundred and fifty mammals. This was
partly due to the fact that the latter
day naturalist of the most vigorous type
who goes into the untrodden wastes of
the world must see and do many strange
things; and still more owing to the char
acter of the man himself. The things
he had seen and done and undergone
often enabled him to cast the light of
his own past experience on unexpected
subjects. Once we were talking about
the proper weapons for cavalry and
someone mentioned the theory that the
lance is especially formidable because of
the moral effect it produces on the en-
envy Cherrie nodded emphatically; and
little cross examination elected the
fact that he was speaking from lively
personal recollection of his own feelings
when charged by Iancers. 1t was while
he was fighting with the Venezuelan in
surgents in an unsuccessful uprising
against the tyranny of Castro"
9. That evening round the campfire
Colonel Rondon happened to mention
how the brother Of one of the soldiers
with usa Parcels Indian-had been
killed by iararaca snake Cherrie told
Of a narrow escape he had from one
while collecting in Guiana. AT night he
used to set traps for small animals. One
night he heard one Of these traps 90 off
under his hammock. He reached down
for it, and as he fumbled for the chain
he felt a snake strike at him, Just miss
ing him in the darkness, but actually
brushing his hand He lit light and
saw that big iararaca had been caught
in the trap, and he preserved it as a
specimen"
I. AT home in Vermont Cherrie is a
farmer, with farm of six hundred acres,
most of it woodland AS we sat at the
foot of the rapids, watching for the last
dugouts with their naked padders to
swing into sight round the bend through
the white water, we talked of the north
ern spring that was just beginning. He
sells cream, eggs, poultry potatoes, hon
ey, occasionally pork and veal; but at
this season it was the time for the
maple sugar crop. He has a sugar or
chard where he taps twelve hundred trees
and hopes soon to tap as many more in
addition Said Cherrie: It's a busy time
now for Fred Rice Fred Rice is the
hired man, and in sugar time the Cherrie
boys help him with enthusiasm, and,
moreover, are paid with exact justice for
the work they dc"
s. Mr.. Roosevelt was very i'll on the
trip. OF this time he said: KERMIT and
Gherrie took care of me as if they had
been trained nurses"
Q. "Cherrie had more than stood every
test; and in him Kermit and | had come
to recognize friend with whom our
friendship would never falter or grow
less"