Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here...
...merchant was stricken with natural history fever. His case was more virulent than those of Mr. James Simpson of Chicago and Mr. Walter P. Chrysler (TIME, March 8), who respectively financed but did not accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo in particular...
Like the Roosevelts, these huntsmen will seek an almost fabulous creature. Like Dr. Mann of the Smithsonian forces, they will try to take the creature alive as well as dead. It is an anachronism from the age of reptiles that they have in mind a lizard that is known to grow to the size of a crocodile, that is, 18 to 21 feet long; a carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch...
...greatest live game collecting expedition ever attempted" had been planned, financed, prepared and was ready to start for African jungles. There was no Roosevelt in command, as there had been on the Field Museum trip and on the Smithsonian expedition of 1909. But there was this about the new expedition: It was, like the Field Museum trip, financed by a noted U. S. business man, by Walter P. Chrysler, whose low-hung, high-speed little motor cars have been darting through the land with wide acclaim in the past three years...
...Smithsonian-Chrysler party was to be led by Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park at Washington. It had come to Mr. Chrysler's ears that disappointed children were in the habit of asking keepers in the Zoo: "Where's the giraffes? Where's a rhinoc'rus?" The answer was, "There aren't any. There isn't even a zebra here." The money that came forth was designated to effect the capture of giraffes, rhinoceroses, zebras and "anything else needed...