Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Papua (New Guinea), largest island of the archipelago that lies just north of Australia, like scattered shards of a frail continent, is the home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees...
...giant gorilla, with Lulu and Lizzie, chimpanzees, Billy, rare blue cat, and 166 other animals including 12 cobras, 35 assorted snakes, came from Spanish Guinea on the Zarembo. J. L. Buck, Hoo-Hoo's owner, described a gorilla hunt: "Hoo-Hoo's mother and two aunts were escorting him through the jungles. My 21 pygmies chased him 17 days and nights. At length ... the pygmies let fly at him with their poisoned arrows." Deposited gingerly on a waiting truck, Hoo-Hoo jolted toward Camden, N. J., and Hunter Bucks' personal, private...
Poetry--Tristram, Wm. Arlington Robinson. Guinea Fowl and Other Poultry, Leonard Bacon. The Bright Doom, John Hall Wheelock...
...single instance of tuberculosis development in an inoculated child who had been living in sanitary surroundings. To date there have been 80,000 vaccinations. The third session was given over to the scientific proofs of which Professor Lignieres had so loudly spoken. These consisted of records of calves and guinea pigs who developed tuberculosis after having been shot with B. C. G. But he could not prove whether the infection came from B. C. G. or from some outside source. Frequent interruptions from a large and fashionable audience* in the gallery brought the presiding officer's gavel sharply down...
Control and cure of diphtheria, rabies, yellow fever, typhoid fever, pneumonia, tetanus, and innumerable other diseases and pathological surgical conditions has been effected, like the above, by dealings with dogs and guinea pigs and rabbits...