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...Curtis, Jr. '13; W. S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; J. T. Murray '99, professor of English; Andre Morize, professor of French Literature; G. B. Edgell '09, professor of Fine Arts; G. P. Winship '93, lecturer on the History of Printing; and Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator in Zoology...
...illustrated lecture will be given by Ludlow Griscom, research curator in Zoology tonight at 7.30 o'clock on "A Naturalist among the Maya ruins of Yucatan," in the Junior Common Room of Kirkland House...
...journey which Griscom has just completed he made to familiarize himself with the country, and its peculiarities of climate. He was accompanied by Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby, of New York, a well-known amateur ornithologist...
...course of the last ten years Griscom has devoted himself to the study of the birds of Central America in general. During the last year he has been engaged in a report on the birds of Guatemala on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History...
...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...