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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...
...Islands, 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, were well-known to the old U. S. whalers; Darwin found there one more piece of evidence for his big theory; but modern newspaper readers first became aware of them when William Beebe landed there (1923), reported huge lizards, other peculiar fauna. Two years ago they flashed into the news, with a dramatic mystery no Sunday-feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil...
...animal story. Foxhunters might claim it, with some justice, as a sporting book, for it sings the glories of the chase. And Southerners could point with pride not only to the color of Author Harriss' style but to the knowledgeable way he handles the Carolinian flora and fauna, not to speak of human whites and blacks. And readers need to be neither centaurs nor Southerners to see in this little book (240 pp.) a lot of life...