Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reach with a careless paw. The dancer informs Schomburg of their whereabouts, believing him Ibrahim's wise but unappreciated doctor. Thus there is suspense, leading to a pathetic, human, amusing climax that no reviewer should reveal. Author Dekobra has motored all through Europe, tiger-hunted in the Congo, canoed up the Nile, translated Daniel DeFoe, Jack London and O. Henry into French. Famed in 15 languages is his novel The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, in which a character reputedly derived from Diana Duff-Cooper, famed English beauty, has very improbable adventures...
...Coast skulls he has studied are grouped as West Cameroons, Cameroons and Gaboon. The eastern Congo or Mountain skulls are grouped as Kiva and Eastern Mountain gorillas...
...China in the fall of this year, Mr. Coolidge came into prominence in the press of this country. As a member of the Harvard African Expedition led by Dr. Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...
...divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these races is the one found on the West Coast of Central Africa and the second race is found in the mountains of the Eastern Congo separated from the first by 750 miles of tropical jungle...
...introduced in zoology a system of photographing skulls against a scale background, a method previously employed by anthropologists. He has a series of over four hundred scale pictures, taken with the assistance of the following museums: Berlin Museum, Hamburg Museum, Oslo Museum, Anatomy Museum at Amsterdam, Congo Museum at Tervueren. Lord Bothschild's museum at Tring, Major PowellCotton's Museum, Dr. Duckworth's collection, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology...