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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
...efforts of Alexander Agassiz and others, its Polynesian collection, from the islands of the Pacific, is unusually large and full. The European collection, though far from complete, is the best in this country. In African ethnology we are extremely rich. Our Asian collection is small, and that from South America not large nor fully representative. These are holes in the collection which should be filled...
...name "Fashion Park Associates Inc." was chosen last week to include the products of three famed haberdasheries, newly merged: Weber & Heilbroner, Inc., Stein-Bloch Co., Fashion Park Inc. Capitalized at $10,000,000, Fashion Park Associates will soon acquire control of Metropolitan Co. (Dayton, Ohio), Max Adler Co. (South Bend, Ind.), L. E. Oppenheim & Co. (Bay City, Mich.), Oppenheim's (Jackson, Mich...
...inch telescope, starting anew in 1885 after the invention of the dry plate, the Harvard Collection of celestial photographs is the most complete in the whole world. Southern stars not visible in Cambridge were photographed in Arequipa, Peru, from 1891 to 1926, when the station was removed to Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...Shapley to locate more accurately the center or nucleus of our Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...