Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spark of stage wit, the faculty of knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...
...leader of the Indo-China division of the Kelley-Roosevelts-Field Museum Expedition which returned from Indo-China in the fall of this year, Mr. Coolidge came into prominence in the press of this country. As a member of the Harvard African Expedition led by Dr. Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...
...Mr. Coolidge's monograph is remarkable, not only because he reduces the genus Gorilla to one species, but because he has differentiated two specific subspecies, the "mountain" and the "coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first...
...method of discovery of the gorilla goes far to explain the erroneous notions as to variety of species which have grown up throughout the world, and explains too why science has waited for such an exhaustive study as this one by Mr. Coolidge to reduce the classification to one single species of two subspecies. The first specimen in any museum in the world was that in the Boston Society of Natural History and now in the Agassiz Museum. It was discovered by Savage, a missionary in the Gaboon, and sent in 1847 to Dr. Geoffries Wyman, then Professor...
...order that the claims of these specimens to special classification might be shown to be in error, an exhaustive study had to be made of virtually all the available material about gorillas extant throughout the world. It is such a study which Mr. Coolidge has just completed, and it is upon such a study that his findings rest...