Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler The ornate box turtle, _Terrapene o. ornata_ Agassiz, was studied more or less continuously from September, 1953, until July, 1957. Intensive field studies were made of free-living, marked populations in two small areas of Douglas County, Kansas, in the period 1954 to […]

[My father’s autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,–and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, ‘Recollections of the […]