Word: fauna
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...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...
...variants. But it does succeed in classifying these so that they may be readily recognized if met. Draconist Stokes does not really believe there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite and does not press his own ingenious theory until the very end. There he also says a word about four modern dragons? Respectability, Bigotry, Cant and Mah Jongg...