Naturalist Meaning

"It has also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain their full growth and strength till thirty; but that women arrive at maturity by twenty." — 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

"I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist." — a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language, 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 236:

"The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it." — 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co.:

"Trinity received “Birds of America” in 1900 as a gift from Dr. Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art." — 1985 July 21, Eleanor Charles, “Connecticut Guide”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:

"Its author – Henry Handel Richardson was the nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – had indeed read, and on occasion translated, these great European writers and they provided the naturalist style and intellectual inquiry resonant in all her fiction. […] The honesty and authorial detachment that is so remarkable in her work – she is one of the least obtrusive, least judgmental of all the great naturalist writers – seems to come from a distance, almost as though the particularly acute insight of the adult writer could only be seen through the filter of childhood experience." — 2008 August 23, Carmen Callil, “Agony by agony”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2014, page 17, columns 1 and 4: