LEWISTON – William Cronon, a leading scholar on the human relationship with land and nature, visits Bates College to give the ninth annual Otis Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Cronon’s talk is titled “Saving Nature in Time: The Past and Future of Environmentalism.” Made possible through the Philip J. Otis Endowment, the lecture is open to the public at no cost.

Cronon is noted for his work on environmental history, the writing and rhetoric of history and geography, and U.S. social and economic history, with a focus on the American West and frontier. His Otis Lecture is based on a forthcoming book of the same title.

The annual Otis Lecture at Bates is funded by the Philip J. Otis Endowment, established in 1996 by a gift from Margaret V.B. and C. Angus Wurtele in memory of their son, Philip, a member of the class of 1995 who died attempting to rescue an injured climber on Mount Rainier.