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United States of America, S. T. Tyng 3L; Belgium, Mark Somerhausen 1G; Brazil, A. J. Byington Jr. '24; Canada, W. J. West 3L,; Great Britain, G. H. Guttridge 1G,; India, J. E. Asirvatham pr'P.S.; China, V. S. Phen 2G.; France, B. Sidbon-Beyda 1G.B.; Germany, Gerhart Jentsch 2G.; Greece, C. S. Pezas 1G.; Holland, J. N. Sevenster 1T.S.; Italy, Joseph Lazzaro 1G.; Japan, G. N. Tanikawa 1G.; Russia, H. I. Maximon 3E.S.; Sweden, B. G. Ohlin...
From the snake house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used...
...reason that Brazil leads the world in this particular field of science is that over 15,000 persons are said to be killed there each year by poisonous snakes. This is an even greater figure, proportionately, than in India, for although the total number of deaths in India from cobras and other poisonous snakes has ranged as high as 25,000 for the last year they were 19,396--the population is much greater than Brazil's. --New York Tribune
...both history and literature, and to include also books on economics and sociology. Mr. Stetson has made previous similar gifts to the University, and with his aid it is hoped to develop a noteworthy collection representing the literature and history not only of Portugal itself, but also of Brazil...
...Roosevelt accompanied his father on his African hunting trip in 1909-10, and also went on the famous expedition to Brazil in 1914, where the much-discussed "River of Doubt" was discovered...