Word: fauna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty of these maps, painted in fresco-like colors with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
...There are peculiar species of fauna in these rain forests," the former curator of the Nirobi Museum of Natural History continued, "that are unrelated to anything on the surrounding plains, and much more like Western African varieties...
Arthur Loverdige, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and one of three Harvard men who were recently awarded Guggenheim fellowships, will leave for Tanganyika in September to spend ten months studying isolated and fast vanishing fauna in the "rain forests" of East Africa...
...fishes are concerned, it is probable that Rivero will work on those which belong to the Cuban fauna, and Schroeder will handle the remainder, chiefly the deep sea species...
...Grande do Sul, six months of which were too rainy to allow digging, the men located the 175,000,000 year old fossil bed in the red clay footbills of the Brazilian Platean. It is believed to be the most significant American deposit yet found of the fauna of the Triassic period, critical in the development of the ancestors of the dinosaurs and mamals...