Rutherford Hayes Platt
Mostly of a fiction nature this book tells a great tale of Adam and Eve and the Generations before the Flood.The battle between good and evil is real and temptations are strong. We can be easily deceived by a slip of the hand or the tongue and need to be watchful. (Cheryl)About the author: Rutherford Hayes Platt, Jr. (11 August 1894, Columbus, Ohio - 28 May 1975, Boston) was an American nature writer, photographer, and advertising executive.Platt served in WW I as a lieutenant in Battery F, Three Hundred Twenty-Third Field Artillery and, with McDonald H. Riggs, wrote a history of his unit. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1918. In the early 1920s he was employed on the editorial staffs of The World’s Work and of Doubleday Page & Company. He then became a corporate officer of Platt-Forbes, Inc., an advertising agency which represented several food and industrial companies, including Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation. In the mid‐1950s he became president of Platt Productions Educational Films, specializing in nature films.He attended classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and by 1930 had become keenly interested in nature and, in particular, photography of plant life. For many years, Mr. Platt’s two-page spread of color photographs of mushrooms and other forms of fungi appeared in the 'Mushrooms' article of the World Book Encyclopedia; some of these images also appeared in an article on mushrooms that he wrote for the August 28, 1944 issue of Life magazine.Mr. Platt was botanist with Rear Adm. Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic expeditions in 1947 and 1954. He was biology adviser to the Disney True Life Films in the early nineteen‐fifties and was the author of 'Walt Disney’s Secrets of Life,' published in 1957.Platt was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the John Burroughs Medal in 1945 for his 1942 book This Green World. (wikipedia.org)
