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...Chiromys daubeutonia) is one type of the little, twerp-faced lemurs of France's Madagascar, remarkable for the fact that the third finger on each hand is preternaturally long and slim for delicately picking up caterpillars...
...place a lofty plateau. Lieut.-Colonel Sewell had no doubt that the drowned mountains once topped large exposed land masses which might well be the hypothetical continent "Lemuria," proposed by Germany's late Naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel to explain the fact that lemurs, lowest of primates, swarm in Madagascar and the Malay Islands, are scarce elsewhere. Last week as the Mabahiss prepared to wind up its cruise, the expedition's secretary in Cambridge received another report, accompanied by samples of water and ooze from depths down to five miles. Beneath a wide patch of the Indian Ocean, Leader...
...exhibition. Farther down the street Artist Henri Matisse's art-dealing son Pierre proudly showed 20 sombre impressive canvases by Georges Rouault, the largest single showing of his oil paint ings ever held. Hulking, testy Ambroise Vollard was born in the Isle de la Reunion southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, went to Paris over half a century ago to study law. He was an indifferent lawyer, but his eye for art was alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other...
...reptiles which were then the lords of life roamed two vast continents, ''Gondwanaland" in the southern hemisphere, "Laurasia" in the northern. A globe-girdling ocean, the "Tethys Deep," divided them. Mighty Gondwanaland shuddered, cracked and sundered. Its fragments drifted to form South America. Africa. Australia, Peninsular India, Madagascar. Mighty Laurasia similarly broke to form North America and Eurasia...
...Captain William Kidd sailed from New York to fight pirates off Madagascar, became one himself. Sentenced to death in London, he exclaimed: "My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part I am the innocentest person of them all. . . ." First the rope, then the gallows broke during his execution. He was hanged to a tree...