Word: bison
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...towers to the sky. On the hill's slope, lesser castles serve humbly as "guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards...
Most of the renovations have centered about the third floor and it is here that the new acquisitions have been located. Among the new cases, the display of specimens brought back by the Universities Alaskan expedition, which shows antlers and skulls of prehistoric bison in a remarkable state of preservation, has a prominent place. Included the same case are specially prepared exhibits of insectivora...
...danger of abductions of sacrosanct animals cannot be lightly cast aside. Masterpieces of the taxidermist's art, having served long and faithfully in the Peabody Museum, may be forcibly removed from their perches. The heads of elk and bison which have looked down from the walls in the Union upon generations of Harvard men would tempt any kleptomaniacal collector of mounted beasts. Beware the Jabberwock...
...Commission to buy all the buffaloes it sees fit and forbidding the killing of all females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe 59 known bison (protected through the European Bison Society). Most important European herd is the Duke of Bedford's at Woburn Abbey, England, where he has successfully crossbred the American and European strains. Next week Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Society sails to Europe to study the possibilities...
...fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...