Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kermit Roosevelt business is quite an academic affair. Ever since he played around the White House grounds 20 years ago, he has shown the naturalistic bent of his father. When Theodore Roosevelt was on his hunting trips, Kermit was usually along, taking photographs of his father and the fauna. The two were together on the African hunting trip of 1909-10, on the Brazilian "River of Doubt" exploration of 1914. (Between 1911 and 1916 Kermit made essays at engineering and banking in South America. He married Belle Wyatt Willard of Richmond...
...Crane is, of course, only joking. She will not "do" anything. Didn't she let Mr. Crane give Nathalia a typewriter for Christmas? Didn't she keep rushing to the encyclopedia at Nathalia's command to look up African flora and fauna for this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number...
...Belgian Commission on Sleeping Sickness which spent some time in Africa. Dr. G. M. Allen, is a lecturer on zoology at the University and also secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. He has spent some time in British East Africa and has become familiar with the fauna of that region...
...Study Fauna of Country...
Woodworth and Ames will be working for Dr. Fernald and will collect and study the growth of flowers in the Torngat country and also the fauna in the fjords...