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...following have been elected to the business board: J.H. Smith, chairman, J.A. Hornaday and P.S. Dalton, sub-chairmen, and J.C. Bayley, A.J. Beveridge, Jr., R.L. Hoguet, R.L. Leonard, W.K. McEwen, E.K. Straus, and H.B. Rood...
...that is why scientists, save for Dr. William Temple Hornaday, for 30 years director of the New York Zoological Garden, disbelieved the story of the Eastland horned toad. It might have lived, the questioned authorities say, one, two or even five years within the sealing of the stone, but never a human generation...
Against this array and fortified with an amusing non-sequitur, Naturalist Hornaday went with his story...
That was a very brave story for Dr. Hornaday to revive and it gave narrative confidence to a plain & ordinary Texan, one George Henkel, Dallas taxidermist. Said he without winking, thinking or drinking...
...Hornaday has studied and collected wild life in virtually every retreat and game paradise of the world. He knows from personal acquaintance the cave-birds of Trinidad; the crocodiles of Florida and Venezuela; the elephants of Africa and India; the musk ox and his ugly tropical cousin, the water buffalo, which stalks humans. He has collected turtles and their eggs at Key West and mountain goat photographs and horns in the Shoshones. One of the most readable chapters he ever wrote is called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn...