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Why the Academy of Natural Sciences named a fish after Ernest Hemingway

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Before he wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea,' Ernest Hemingway sent marine specimens from Cuba and Key West to the Academy of Natural Sciences. A curator later named a spinycheek scorpionfish after the author.

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