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More than 15,000 duplicate specimens were exchanged during the past year by the Gray Herbarium with active herbaris in the United States and Canada and with institutions in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland...
Rupture of a blood vessel cause the death of Newell Bent, Jr.'33 last Sunday on the slope of Mt. Aconcagua, located on the border of Chile and Argentine, according to word received yesterday...
Travelling under the auspices of the Agassiz Museum, he had been in Chile since Christmas for the purpose of making entomological and photographical studies of Aconcagua...
...choice of Havelock Ellis. Now almost 77, he has been actively writing and editing for 50 years, has practised medicine, translated from Spanish and French, written poetry and fiction, taught school, made a special study of sex psychology. Born in Surrey of a seafaring family, he traveled to Chile at the age of 6, was in charge of a government school in New South Wales by the time he was 19. Deciding that he needed a knowledge of biology in order to understand himself and others, he studied medicine in London, began applying a scientific attitude to literary criticism...
...North American such a wild terrain does not seem economically worth fighting for. Perhaps it has oil. Perhaps Bolivia, cut off from the Pacific by Chile 52 years ago, needs an outlet across the northern Chaco to the navigable Paraguay River. However, landlocked Bolivia already has far better outlets: by railroad across Chile to the coast; by railroad to the navigable reaches of the Amazon in Brazil. The Gran Chaco War was wholly a peoples' war, begun by a rousing pair of national inferiority complexes...