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Some time ago, having "dedicated his life to Science" after a course at Harvard, Mr. Burden read in a bulletin of the British Museum an exhortation to sportsmen to apprehend specimens of the giant lizard reported by P. A. Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME...
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