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...pits came every sort of ice-age animal to fill up Los Angeles museums, from imperial elephants and mastodons to giant sloths. Somewhere along the line, the captain also began collecting Audubons. Meanwhile, his collection of marine specimens (there is an Aganostomus hancocki Seale fish and a Diploglossus hancocki [Slevin] lizard) got so big that in 1938 he decided to start a Foundation for Scientific Research just to house them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Keep Moving | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wake of the Beagle | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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