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...illustrated lecture last night before 25 members of the Harvard Ornithological Club, meeting in Adams House. Lawrence B. Fletcher, Secretary of the Northeastern Bird Banking Association, discussed the economic value of birds, the desirability of bird banding, and the lives of the humming bird and the tern...
...were not for the birds," said Fletcher, "we would have no flora and consequently no animal food. For on a typical apple tree the female gypsy moth lays 500 eggs. Each of the moths from these eggs lay 500 more eggs, and in a few years there are literally millions of caterpillars, even allowing for a fifty per cent mortality...
Columbia's Bessie Smith selections, from the numerous discs it cautiously labeled "race records" and ceased issuing about 1929, include: St. Louis Blues, simple and powerful, and Reckless Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith...
Chairman of the committee is George F. Baker '38, while other members include Raymond Dennett '36, J. Fletcher Chace '38, C. Colton Daughaday, Jr. '38, Francis Keppel '38, Charles A. Munn, Jr., '38, Robert C. Walker, Jr., '38, Oliver P. Bolton '39, and Edward G. Dreyfus...
Richard C. Floyd '11, Chairman, Arthur A. Adams '99, C. Russell Allen '38, William A. Barron, Jr. '14, Edward H. Bennett '37, Charles C. Buell '23, James A. Burgess '04, J. Fletcher Chace '38, Frederic C. Church '20, Forrester A. Clark '38, John R. Clark '38, Laurence Curtis '16, Roger W. Cutler '11, John H. Dean '34, F. Stanton Deland '36, Charles Devens '32, Henry T. Dunker '25, Samuel M. Felton, 3rd '13, W. Cameron Forbes '92, George S. Ford '37, James J. Gaffney '37, William F. Garcelon '95, G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, Robert H. Hallowell '96, Huntington...