Word: komodo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo in particular. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are to be accompanied by Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum of Natural History, and Mrs. Murphy. They are to depart, by chartered schooner, in the summer...