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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the University Museum, the same Department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of Oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish, and a few frogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY MAINTAINS LARGE COLLECTION OF ANIMALS FOR RESEARCH | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

Neither the hoariest monkey nor the most venerable boa constrictor on the jungle shores of Gatun Lake had seen such a sight as took place on that cobalt body of water last week. For 48 hr. a file of warships in pairs, by the dozen, by the score streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: March Across Panama | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...toes crossed," said Senator Barkley of Kentucky. ''I am voting for it," said Senator Stephens of Mississippi, ''with strong misgivings, with grave doubts." "I am voting against it,'' said Senator Gore of Oklahoma, ''because the farmers are winding a boa constrictor around their necks. . . . If this measure is constitutional anything is constitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Cotton by Quota | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Under the University Museum the same department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish and a few frogs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zoos Consisting of Almost Every Known Living Organism Maintained Throughout University by Research Fanatics | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

...Haeseler '23, director of the Film Foundation, was faced yesterday afternoon with the problem of making a baby boa-constrictor constrict. An order from the Biology Department had come in for a film of a boa-constrictor eating his dinner; a sleck, five-foot specimen was accordingly secured, but it refused to perform even in the face of alternate starvation in solitude and mice before the camera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARVED BOA CONSTRICTOR BAFFLES PHOTOGRAPHERS | 2/8/1933 | See Source »

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