Look At Your Fish Essay

The short essay “Look at Your Fish”, is written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 13, 1837 and lived until May 17, 1911. Scudder’s profession was an entomologist and paleontologist and was widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences. He graduated at Williams College in 1857 and at Harvard University in 1862. In the short essay “Look at Your Fish” it narrates how Scudder wants to learn all about zoology, especially about insects and so the professor then gives him a fish specimen and tells Scudder to look at it. This happens many times and each time Scudder looks and observes the fish, he sees more and more new aspects of the fish.What we can carry