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...MURRAY BARBOUR East Lansing, Mich...
...scouis Lamar and Boston said the Cavaliers were overconfident, to say the least. HARVARD VIRGINIA W. Flynn (200) le Elliott (205) Honston (200) lt Kirkland (250) Drennan (190) lg Thomas (190) Glynn (205) e Frizzell (212) Feinberg (188) rg Baumann (202) Pierce (215) rt Barbour (210) Hill (180) re Weir (178) O'Donnell (160) qb McCary (172) Kenary (180) lh Bailey (198) Gannon (180) rh Pennel (177) Moravee (200) fb G. Jones...
...assuming his duties, Professor Romer fills the vacancy created last January by the death of Professor Thomas Barbour. Professor Henry B. Bigelow has served as Acting Director in the interim...
Died. Dr. Thomas Barbour, 61, 6-ft.-6 snake-loving, pre-eminent naturalist and author (A Naturalist at Large, That Vanishing Eden), director since 1927 of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. One of the worst of his many bad moments with reptiles in many lands: his giant boa went AWOL in a Palm Beach-bound train...
Professor Barbour's vacations in Florida began his career as a naturalist. His grandmother took him to the Bahamas when he was 14, and it was there that he began his collection of snakes and toads. A year later, he noticed some dried toads mislabeled in the Harvard Museum and told the director about it. But the director only thought him presumptuous and Professor Barbour had to wait until 18 years later, when he himself became director of the museum, to correct the labels...