Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasure primarily, but also to supply the American Museum of National History with habitat groups of African fauna and to make a cinematic volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been...
...with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown in U. S. museums; just as James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co. (Chicago department store), was congratulating himself and being congratulated that the expedition he had financed was a complete success and a great contribution to natural science; just at this point, last week, the Smithsonian...
...hundred manuscripts (Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac); several thousand photographs and negatives; some two thousand jantern slides; a few bas-reliefs; and about two thousand clay books, seals, and statuettes of Babylonian origin; several thousand specimens of ancient pottery and coins from Palestine; and hundreds of specimens of the geology, fauna, flora, costumes, jewelry, and utensils of that country...
...average tide-rise is 56 feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths, shell-backed glyptodons, macrauchenia (camels, snouted like tapirs), toxodons (tusked hippos) and a bird-like flesh-eater called phororhacos...
...much to say of himself. What little he does say is enough to reveal his very great dislike of public life and his preference for the flora and fauna of his estate. He says he lived in luxury, but to him luxury was in having everything he wanted and nothing he did not want, and his wants were few and simple...