Abstract
Undoubtedly, almost everyone working in the natural sciences came to science by way of a somewhat unique route. Mine, I believe, began one Christmas when I was around eight or nine, when I received a wonderful Christmas gift from one of my aunts. It was a large, generic hardback book about natural history. It began with some chemistry and astronomy, continued through the geologic time periods, surveyed the major plant and animal groups, and ended with some ecology of the Earth's biomes. Being a typical youngster, I especially recall the dinosaur section, which I read and
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