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...different species of birds in Guatemala caused Ludlow Griscom, a Research Curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to make during the past summer a special trip to Central America, from which he has just returned. Although, because of its peculiar variation in fauna, the country has been combed by ornithologists, Griscom was able to secure some very rare specimens...
...great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east...
Among the new appointments at the Museum are: Ludlow Griscom, A.M., formerly with the American Museum of National History, research collector in zoology; Frederic H. Kennard '08, and Arthur C. Bent '89, associates in ornithology; Henry C. Stetson '23, A.M. '26, assistant curator of paleontology...
...Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...
They got a long knife and the fire tongs. Taking the empty ale bottles with them, they lurched out to the foyer, overturning tables as they went, bashing at lamps and pictures, slashing at hangings. Before two pastels of blonde young ladies-Mrs. Olga Griscom and the Princess Anita Lobkowicz, Mr. Lihme's daughters-they swayed, squinting. They swung their weapons, ruined the faces, lurched on to greater havoc, Mr. Healy pausing only to exercise his muscle further on another chandelier...