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PONJOLA-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam ($2.00). Lady Flavia Desmond was Tired of It All. She was just about to make a hole in the Seine when she ran into Lundi Druro, a tall, bronzed personage, back from Africa on leave, whose tales of the native flora and fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast...
...large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly likely to be realized, however...
...Peters '12 will leave New York Saturday on a scientific expedition to Santo Domingo, where he will collect birds, mammals, and reptiles for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. He will be gone about three months, and will make a thorough study of the avian-fauna of the island. Many of the birds to be collected there for the University are found in no other part of the world, and several available species are almost unknown to science...
...Harvard Zoological Club. "Notes on the Fauna of the Blue Nile Valley." Dr. G. M. Allen. Room 46, 4th floor, University Museum...
...Harvard Zoological Club. "Notes on the Fauna of the Blue Nile Valley." Dr. G. M. Allen. Room 46, 4th floor, University Museum...