Ingersoll, Ernest
naturalist, author, was born March 13, 1852, in Monroe, Mich. He is a naturalist of New York city whose writing is mainly for young people, and of a popular character. He is the author of Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice Queen, a story; Birds'-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond; and Habits of Animals.