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Article: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, GULF STREAM MARINE SCIENTIST: THE 1934-35 ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES CORRESPONDENCE.
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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IN MARCH 1934, en route back to the United States after their African safari, Ernest and Pauline Hemingway stopped for a week in Paris before embarking for New York. In Paris Hemingway received a surprising letter from an American stranger, Charles M. B. Cadwalader, Director of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Forwarded from the Scribner office in New York, Cadwalader's letter of 6 March 1934 asked if Hemingway would be interested in cooperating with Academy scientists in conducting research in Cuban waters to remedy "the lack of knowledge concerning the classification, life histories, food [and] migrations ... of the sailfish, marlin, tuna and other large ...