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Among the patronesses will be the Mesdames James B. Conant, Charles S. Bird, Jr., Julian L. Coolidge, Courtenay Crocker, Wallace B. Donham, Louis J. A. Mercier, Andre Morize, and John B. Potter...
...brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y. was probably the earliest scientific "house organ...
Head of the biology section is Oscar Kirchoff, whose father was brought by Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering...
Thus, out of last week's ashes, little radical third parties could dream of rising in a new and greater incarnation. For the Union Party's ambitious triumvirate, Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and Preacher Smith, the bird indicated by the democracy last week was not the phoenix but the dodo...
Coach Henry Lamar started the following eleven: Ends, Devine and Maguire; tackles, Armstrong and Healey; guards, Thompson and Heiskell; center. Bird; quarter, Macdonald; halfs, Curtis and Bailey; full, Seargent. In addition the following substitutes also received numerals: Squibb, Cordingly, Duane, Kelly, Coleman, Hallett, Daughdy, Fair, Hoye, F. Curtiss...