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...godfather of this celestial child of the Harvard line is Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, who has recently named 14 small planets or asteroids photographically discovered by the late Reverend J. H. Metcalf. To one of these planetoids, which labored under the title of 1912 PZ, Professor Shapley gave the name of the University...
...Portlandia and Winchester are the heavenly types of their respective boroughs. To two other asteroids Professor Shapley assigned the names Arequipa and Mandeville, commemorating the branches of the College Observatory. A personal touch is given to the general christening by the naming of three tiny bodies after Dr. Metcalf, Professor G. E. Bond, the first director of the Observatory, and the late Professor E. C. Pickering, director for 40 years...
...Dutch name for this monster lizard is boeaja darat (land crocodile). Science calls him varanus komodensis, identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...
...Despatches were meagre concerning these "dragons," but doubtless the flyers had met the expedition under Jesse Metcalf, Manhattan woolens manufacturer, which sailed for Komodo last spring (TIME, March 22 SCIENCE), to capture the large lizard called "boeaja darat" by the Dutch, "land crocodile" by the English. Nearly extinct, this creature is a descendant of dinosaurs; he travels fleetly, his belly free from the ground; eats flesh by night; has been killed in lengths of 18 and 21 ft. Deaf, he is fairly easy to hunt. Of the "fumes not unlike smoke" scientists awaited further explanation...
...remote corners of the world are more and more 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...