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...Richard T. Fisher, first Director of the Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass, evolved his scheme for teaching forestry through models. With some $30,000 from an anonymous donor, Director Fisher gave the contract to the professional model-making firm of Guernsey & Pitman. His instructions were that all the models should be of the same scale (half an inch to the foot), that the trees should not be random twigs and bits of painted sponge, but accurate reproductions which any naturalist could recognize...
Thereupon Captain Allen made for London, but news of the two tons of TNT had preceded him, and at Gravesend he was told that the Santa Maria was not wanted. Desperate now, he put in at Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, was shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...
Died. Samuel James Guernsey, 66, longtime curator of Harvard's Peabody Museum, pioneering archeologist whose researches established the existence of a North American race antedating the Pueblo-dwellers; of a pulmonary disease; in Arlington, Mass...
Samuel J. Guernsey, Curator of Archaeology at Peabody Museum, died early Friday morning at the age of 68. Heart failure abruptly ended his 27 years of service to the University. Private funeral services were held yesterday morning at his home...
...years, he resigned in 1919 to help organize the New School for Social Research. Died. Mary Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become the stage sensation of two continents; of pneumonia; near Cannes. In 1912 she retired to the Isle of Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry, 76, long-time newspaper correspondent, onetime (1919-33) Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime...