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Charles Lanier Lawrance, famed designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor (TIME, Feb. 13) was piloting an Avro-Avian above and about Curtiss Field. With him rode J. B. Taylor, vice president of Air Associates, Inc., owners of the plane. Violent air currents bowed the ship's head. It shivered, dived. As it came to earth it straightened out automatically, damaging only the landing gear. Experts attributed this salvation of the flyers to the slot...
...Peters '12 will leave New York Saturday on a scientific expedition to Santo Domingo, where he will collect birds, mammals, and reptiles for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. He will be gone about three months, and will make a thorough study of the avian-fauna of the island. Many of the birds to be collected there for the University are found in no other part of the world, and several available species are almost unknown to science...