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With two men of this mettle, Mr. Sanderson relates in a highly readable book published this week,* he set off for a section of West Africa called Mamfe. He chose it because while it was unsanitary, and disease-ridden, it was nevertheless teeming with the beasts he wanted. Hundreds of specimens collected by the Sanderson expedition had never been bagged before. One of the first animals he encountered was a horrible, smelly little creature named the shrew. It looks like a rat with a long snout and eats anything from snakes to other shrews. Other of Zoologist Sanderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: African Treasure | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...standard African game-hunting expedition consists of several big, fearless men looking for lions and buffalo, and a battalion of black "boys" who wear their shirttails hanging outside and call their employers bwana. Ivan Sanderson, a young zoologist, broke all the rules when he went game hunting in Africa in 1932. At Cambridge he had decided it was necessary for anthropologists to know more about the neglected, obscure little animals whose places in evolution were uncertain and whose capture would have scientific rather than sporting importance. To help him collect them, he again broke the rules by selecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: African Treasure | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Died. John Sanderson Dalziel, 98, wood engraver, friend of Charles Dickens, son of one of Dickens' publishers, illustrator for Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen; in Denver, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...last 16 years the Hay Creek Ranch has been owned by William U. Sanderson, a onetime Australian sheepman, who took the Wichman house, ranch and cattle in Kauai in part payment for his ranch. The full price for Hay Creek remained a secret. Under Sheepman Sanderson its flock of 20,000 Rambouillets became the world's finest. For breeding purposes the Soviet Commissar of Agriculture has bought a total of 27,000. Hay Creek Rambouillet sheep are so big that the herders entertain visitors by riding them. Other Hay Creek livestock include 100 blooded horses, 5,000 purebred Herefords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ranch Swap | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Famed British Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, who says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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