Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most valuable stamp in the world. Should some one find, on an old letter, a big stamp with an octagon marked within its four corners, and a square inside the octagon, and in the square a schooner, full-rigged, with "British" in the sky above it and "Guiana" in the sea beneath, then the value of Mr. Hind's stamp would be lessened, for collectors would know that there were two such stamps in the world...
Once this famed stamp, the "British Guiana 1856" belonged to Philippe la Rénotière von Ferrari, an odd curmudgeon whose collection was bought by Mr. Hind (textiles). Count Ferrari lived in a castle at 57 Rue de Varennes, Paris, which his mother had willed to the Austrian Embassy in order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost...
...much time, pains and money, he learned that the Aluminum Co. controlled the great U. S. deposits of bauxite, the commercial ore from which aluminum is extracted. These deposits are in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas. The Aluminum Co. also controls the great bauxite deposits of British and Dutch Guiana, and buys up much of the French red bauxite. Manufacturer Haskell located other deposits, until then unknown to the Aluminum...
...Theiler, instructor in tropical medicine will act as the official bacteriologist of the expedition. D. H. Snider '21, who will serve in the capacity of botanist and mycologist has already carried on similar work in Cuba and Guiana. Loring Whitman '25, now a first year student in the Medical School will be the photographer. During his Senior year in college he was Chairman of the photographic department of the CRIMSON and is an expert photographer of wild animals and insects. H. J. Coolidge Jr. 27 will accompany the party as hunter and assistant zoologlst. He has been particularly interested...
...France is amused by anachronisms. And La Mariniere is an anachronism. A prison ship sailing modern seas, is it not intriguing? Perhaps some Wilde will picture another bit of blue these voyageurs call their sky: perhaps some Lovelace will discover for them that even the penal isolation of French Guiana is not a cage. La Mariniere sails on. Classicists and romanticists, cynics and cooks, these branded brethren of despair continue their one determined and certain route. Outward bound delightful trip, and on the government. Bon voyage...