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Divorced. Sir James Heath, 80, British ironmaster and colliery owner; and Sophie Mary Lady Heath, who flew alone from Cape Town to London in 1928; in London. Grounds: misconduct with Reginald Williams whom she married after obtaining a Reno divorce which Sir James held was illegal...
...been advanced by those who urge a thorough search of the east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn up. In respect to Arthur the Seagull, police of Sandwich, Massachusetts, are keeping a sharp lookout for a small bird named "Minnie", sole surviving Heath Hen of the Bay State, and friend of the Harvard gull several years ago. Description of the hunted bird, which tallies somewhat with that of the Lampoon's sacred Ibis, states that Minnie is slight, grey-colored, with pale features and a closely-cropped ruff...
...fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year...
...long and some of his characteristics should be preserved for posterity. The Martha's Vineyard Rod & Gun Club voted to find him a mate, appealed to Professor Gross. Dr. Gross had recently returned from Wisconsin where he studied prairie chickens (Tympanuchus americanus), found them so similar to the heath-hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that no eye less sharp than an expert's could tell one from the other. Both are pinnated grouse. A prairie chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate indeed. The State of Wisconsin agreed to ship a few prairie chickens...
...David A. Wells Prize in Economics, consisting of $500, for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation, has been awarded to H. D. White, instructor and tutor in economics. The subject of his thesis was "French International Accounts: 1880-1913". Dr. C. W. Heath '22, of Boston, was the recipient of the William O. Moseley Travelling Fellowship for the study of medicine abroad during the academic year...