Word: tela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army ants' lack of discrimination caused a small catastrophe at Tela, Honduras, a last week's despatch reported. They invaded the serpentarium there and badly chewed most of the reptiles. Only by throwing the snakes into water, which drowned some of the ants, could attendants save them. Other ants died from the kerosene and cyanogas sprayed in the building...
...back the "Utowana" will stop at Tela, Honduras, where the expedition will visit the snake farm maintained by Harvard, the Antivenim Institute of America, and the United Fruit Company. From there he will go to Cuba to the Harvard Biological Laboratory and Botanical Garden at Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba...
...planned to visit the various tropical agricultural gardens and several of the smaller islands, not touched by the regular trade routes, and, therefore, not visited by naturalists for many years. They hope to collect specimens of plants and seeds for introduction in the experimental stations at Summit, Canal Zone, Tela, Honduras, and the Harvard Gardens in Cuba, and zoological specimens for the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. They will return to the United States about the middle...