Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within a few months, Mr. & Mrs. Johnson expect to set out for the Congo to film gorillas, okapi (large shy forest-dwelling herbivore, with bizarre stripes, as yet unphotographed...
Akeley. Three weeks ago, Mrs. Mary L. Akeley told the circumstances of her husband's fever last autumn on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo (TIME, May 23). The Akeley expedition obtained and preserved 'gorillas, studied the scenery of their haunts, aided the Johnsons in photography. Soon, in the Akeley-African hall of the American Museum of Natural History will be many a tribute to the arduous work that hastened the death of Explorer Carl Ethan Akeley, scientist-explorer-sculptor extraordinary...
...Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
Professor Graton plans to study ore deposition and behavior of rocks at different depths, in order to be able to calculate the conditions that exist at still deeper depths. In addition to places mentioned above he will visit mines in Spain, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and the Belgian Congo. He is being financially aided in this research work by the Bureau of International Research. At the conclusion of his work he will write several articles for scientific publications...
...Germany to receive the Eastern half of Belgium, including Liege; 2) Germany to receive the entire Belgian Congo; 3) Great Britain to receive the French port of Calais...