Word: taxidermist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane to scout for animals they wish to capture. Alexander Siemel, jaguar-spearer, was limping gingerly. An alligator chewed his leg in March. Two members of the party were back at their homes-John Newel, Augusta, Mich, radio and talkie man, weakened by sunstroke; and William E. Green, amateur taxidermist of Trenton. N. J., poisoned by bites of insects and the jararaca snake...
Last week forceful Dr. William Temple Hornaday, retired founder-director of New York City's Bronx Zoo and long Chief Taxidermist to the U. S. National Museum, writing on the stationery of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, criticized the new regulations as follows: "It is a pity to reduce those open seasons by halves, when it would have been both easy and safe to have adopted our recommendation of eight weeks instead of 12 or 14 weeks. We think that the duck-hunters of the United States now are so thoroughly scared (and with mighty good reason!) that they...