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Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard, S. J., head of the geology department of the Jesuit University of Santa Clara, Calif., last fortnight told newsmen and geologists he had discovered that the Aniakchak and Veniaminoff, Alaskan peaks thought to be extinct, are alive. If so, they are the largest active craters in the world...
...gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...
...Friends, collectors, strangers sent him specimens. At an auction sale in a French town, he bought the collection of Dr. Oberthur, French scientist, discovered in it insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant...
...Czechoslovakia. The Paleontological Institute of Brno, Moravia, expects to open shortly with the finest collection of extinct animals in the world. Because the Institute needs more money, a Dr. Stehlik, Moravian paleontologist, plans to go into the mammoth business, utilizing Czechoslovakia's especially rich deposits. Before the Institute scientists can fill an order, they must dig up their mammoth, clean the bones thoroughly, wash them in a solution of chloric acid and water. When the bones are dry, they must treat them with glue, coat them with shellac. The price of a complete mammoth...
...present day aurochs is not to be confused with the original aurochs, a wild ox of Europe last seen in 1627 in Poland. After the extinction of the wild ox, the name "aurochs" was applied in common parlance to the European bison. This animal, too, is nearly extinct. During the War, scores died of starvation in Poland, Lithuania, the Caucasus. Only a few bulls are left, fewer cows. One bull survives in the zoological park at Berlin, another at Springe, several on the estate of Viscount Hereford in England...