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Joseph Charles Beguaert, Assistant Professor of Entomology. From 1910 to 1911 he was entomologist of the Belgian Sleeping Sickness Commission in the Belgian Congo and later in charge of the Botanical Exploration in the Congo for the Belgian Colonial Government. He has been with the Medical School since...
According to Professor Wilson's statement, the book reveals the ratio of blacks and whites in Africa as four to one and demonstrates the possibility of future conflicts between the races as the pressure of European immigration increases. All available official documents in South Africa, the Belgian Congo, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast have been studied by Mr. Buell in the course of his investigation...
Surrounded by friends, Miss Congo, young female gorilla, passed away last week at the John Ringling estate, Sarasota, Fla. For three years she had lived in the U. S., and although her friends were many, she remained always solemn, quiet; some said homesick for the sunny slopes near Lake Kivu in Belgian Congo, where she had been captured. The immediate cause of death was colitis, an intestinal disease often contracted by man, but not often fatal...
...Miss Congo was one of the few young females in the U. S. who believed in the serious salon. Dr. Robert Mearns Yerkes, famed Yale psychologist, visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived...
Solemn and deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...