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Last week spring descended upon Martha's Vineyard. Mass, (island five miles off the "heel" of Cape Cod). To greet it the island's animal life let forth their perennial mating calls. Less hopeful than other fauna was the island's famed Heath Cock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: No Mating Call | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Excerpts of Little impressions, interpretations and criticisms of campus fauna and their problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Little Book | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Brues, Associate Professor of Economic Entomology, to continue his studies of the fauna of hot springs and the adaptation of thermophilous animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-Nine Milton Aids Given Professors for Work in 1930-31 | 3/7/1930 | See Source »

...American committee, but its executive secretary is Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, F. R. G. S., second wife and widow of Carl Akeley, author of Carl Akeley's Africa, a fascinating chronicle. Chapter 19 of this volume contains a full discussion of the origin and location, flora and fauna, of the Pare National Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Premier Duke | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...Virginia Church, California schoolteacher, in which he says she reminds him of Edgar Lee Masters and Sappho. He calls her pages "poems," a definition which may mislead other schoolteachers or puzzle them when they read what are really excerpts from an observant, slightly sentimental diary filled with familiar schoolhouse fauna. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolhouse Fauna | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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