Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. They had much to accomplish in their week together. Next year the "British Ass" celebrates its centenary at London. Elaborate plans were made for the entertainment and enlightenment of the thousands who will attend. General Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African statesman, was elected president for the centenary meeting, the first man from the Dominions to hold the office. Another important matter planned for the 1931 meeting was the proper celebration of Michael Faraday's discovery of the principle underlying the electric generator. As every scientist at Bristol knew...
Alfred Daub, Seattle big game hunter, returned to Nairobi, Africa, last week, from a hunting trip, told of a new way to take wild animals pictures. Tying the carcass of a zebra behind a truck, Hunter Daub and his companions drove around the African veldt. Two lions and a lioness smelled the meat, ran after. While the animals fought for the bait, Hunter Daub sat safely in the truck, cranked his camera...
...eight years natives of Zululand, Union of South Africa, have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with extinction. Dr. William Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoological Park, sent a protesting cable last week to C. F. Clarkson, chairman of the Game Advisory board of Natal. He urged the adoption of more scientific methods in the control of sleeping sickness. Similar complaints have already been made to South African authorities by Kermit Roosevelt and President Madison Grant of the New York Zoological Society...
...Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters are advocating that some of this area be set aside as a game sanctuary. Separated from native villages and pastures by dikes and walls, wild animals would never come into contact with cattle. Similar reservations are already in existence in other African states. The largest is Kruger National Park, five million acres stretching from Johannesburg east to Portuguese East Africa. The building of roads in British territory since the Boer War has made hunting from the back seat of an automobile too easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president...
...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with...