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...another "living fossil" and it's not a member of the faculty. A report published by Harold J. Coolidge, Assistant Curator of Mammals, in the Harvard Museum Monograph today, indicates that the specimen of a wild ox or kouprey presented to the museum last year is an entirely new genus close to the ancestral line of modern domestic cattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Reports Addition of New Fossil To Museum Collection; Kouprey Ancestor of Cow | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...paper reports an estimate of only about one thousand head of kouprey still surviving in the forests of southern Indo-China, which means that this scientifically important genus will probably become extinct unless immediate government protection is provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Reports Addition of New Fossil To Museum Collection; Kouprey Ancestor of Cow | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...kouprey is the first new genus of large living mammal to be discovered since the Okapi was found by Sir Harry Johnston in the Belgian Congo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Reports Addition of New Fossil To Museum Collection; Kouprey Ancestor of Cow | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...there are the big producers, who like to play poker and polo. Intrepid and hard-working Ouida Rathbone is leader of an amorphous salon of her own, and she managed to bag a specimen of nearly every Hollywood social genus for her party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Folies-Bergere | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...space is being devoted to the quite difficult problem of keeping one's balance. Jitterbugging is hard work--vaguely like a track meet. Seems to me that the dreamy-eyed couples floating along to Guy Lombardo's dulcet strains have much more opportunity for sex, unadulterated, than does the genus jitterbug...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 2/23/1940 | See Source »

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