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...becoming fashionable among wealthy folk as things to do instead of merely as things to finance. William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist, cruised the Pacific last winter and brought home strange specimens in his yacht Ara (TIME, Apr. 12). Manufacturer Jesse Metcalf (woolens) is off to collect monster lizards at Komodo, Dutch East Indies, (TIME, March 22). George Eastman (kodaks) is in Africa hunting with his cameras (TIME, March 22). Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum expedition bound for the game-infested interior of Brazil. It was her first...
...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...
...long are the monster lizards that crawl about the island of Komodo...