Word: gorillas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gorilla has but one species of two subspecies and not 15 or more, as scientists previously believed, declares H. J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, after the first exhaustive study ever made of most of the material now available on the subject throughout the world. His findings are set forth in a monograph just published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology under the title "A Revision of the Genus Gorilla...
...Kelley-Roosevelts-Field Museum Expedition which returned from Indo-China in the fall of this year, Mr. Coolidge came into prominence in the press of this country. As a member of the Harvard African Expedition led by Dr. Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...
...Coolidge's monograph is remarkable, not only because he reduces the genus Gorilla to one species, but because he has differentiated two specific subspecies, the "mountain" and the "coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time...
...method of discovery of the gorilla goes far to explain the erroneous notions as to variety of species which have grown up throughout the world, and explains too why science has waited for such an exhaustive study as this one by Mr. Coolidge to reduce the classification to one single species of two subspecies. The first specimen in any museum in the world was that in the Boston Society of Natural History and now in the Agassiz Museum. It was discovered by Savage, a missionary in the Gaboon, and sent in 1847 to Dr. Geoffries Wyman, then Professor...
Graf Zeppelin, Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...