Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With plans to attend the Fourth Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress at Batavia, Java, and to carry on extensive research work along the northwest coast of Australia, a region never before inspected by a marine zoologist, Professor H. L. Clark of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology yesterday announced the itinerary of a trip on which he departs March 15 and which will keep him away from the University for a period of almost a year...
Professor Clark has already done pioneer work on the northeastern coast of Australia. In 1913 under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he conducted investigations at Torres Strait and discovered some new significant facts concerning the migration of marine animals to the island continent. Last Spring he was appointed a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution and granted an appropriation for the coming trip...
...refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar, carnotite deposits in Colorado and Australia. These sources might be worked intensively if the British M. P.'s asseverations are true, that Belgium can easily produce 30 grams (slightly more than one ounce avoirdupois) of radium yearly instead of the 20 grams it has been producing in recent years...
...Carl Ben Eielson, who flew the Arctic with Sir George Hubert Wilkins. Both are in Antarctica now, preparing to return to the U. S. after flights in Graham Land. Australia: Capt. Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, who flew the Southern Cross from the U. S. to Australia. England: Harold ("Bert") Kinkier, solo from England to Australia. Spain...
There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food...