Word: bermudez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the direction of William C, Schroeder, associate curator of fishes in the Museum, the investigation will be aided by three representatives from the Havana School, Luis H. Rivero, Guillermo Aguayo, and Podro Bermudez, who will care for the fishes, molluscs, and foraminifera, respectively...
...resort: it is 20 hr. nearer New York. Venerable is the Crown Colony of Bermuda. It is not one island but a close group of some 300 forming a sort of fishhook about 14 mi. long. The islands were discovered in the 15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune to be wrecked there with a cargo of hogs. Most of Bermuda's earliest visitations were forcible. In 1609 Sir George Somers was shipwrecked there, established the first permanent settlement and gave the little archipelago its alternate name of Somers Islands. The town...