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...American Museum of Natural History is the most fertile source of this sort of research and sends out annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site...
Divorced: Carl Akeley, hunter, explorer, naturalist, and Curator of the American Museum of Natural History, by Mrs. Delia G. Akeley. She charged desertion and cruelty...
William Henry Hudson, famous British author and naturalist, who died last year, left the bulk of his estate of about $40,000 to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to be used for the preparation and distribution of popular educational pamphlets on birds and their protection among English school children...
...essay on the mental differences between men and women, assured his readers that under the most favorable conditions for culture, and supposing the mind of man to remain stationary, it would take woman many centuries to produce "the missing five ounces of female brain." If the famous English naturalist had lived to be present this afternoon in Sanders Theatre, where Madame Curie will be honored as the co-discoverer of radium, he would come away with his belief in the inferiority of the feminine intellect dissipated into thin air. Especially would he be delivered of the notion, long held...
...world famed naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton, transforms the theatre into a forest for the moment by his moose calls and his tales of bear hunting. Craig Campbell, tenor, gives a few classical and popular ballads; Burt Gordon and Gene Ford contribute the familiar jackassieal singing lesson, and Ryan and Ryan perform a remarkable elog with shoes four feet long...