Word: vernay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hunting Tigers in India (F. D. Wilson). Commander George Dyott who went to India with the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition talks about his trip and shows you pictures of it. His record is a good travelog, wonderfully vivid compared to the lectures which, under the same title, have been delivered since time immemorial as a special treat in U. S. boarding schools on Saturday nights, but prosaic when measured against some of the animal scenes that have been artificially arranged in recent romances of wild countries. Some of Dyott's facts are interesting. Indians never kill ordinary elephants, regarding them...
...Vernay Expedition to Indo-China for the Sondaicus rhino, and to India and Africa for field studies for the Asiatic and African Hall groups. Financed by Arthur S. Vernay, antique dealer, Manhattan...