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Latest bulletins yesterday indicated a heavy snow fall throughout. New England, with fair and colder weather in store for weekend skiers. Mount Washington reported four inches at the summit and 23 inches at Pinkham Notch...
...ascent was made this fall and was reported this week from Haiti by Darlington to the director of the Museum. Darlington, as far as records show, is the first zoologist to reach the summit...
...first ascent by a zoologist to the summit of Mount La Hotte, the least known and most difficult mountain peak in Haiti, has been accomplished by Philip J. Darlington, Assistant Curator of Insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, it was announced yesterday...
...collected hitherto unknown species of flightless mountain beetles, some unusual ground insects, some fine river-living beetles from 3000-4000 feet; some frogs peculiar to the region from 5000 feet to the summit; some reptiles from 3000-5000 feet; and six peripatus, a caterpillar-like insect which lives in damp tropical regions...
...days later however, another attempt in order to get photographs was made, this time with Holcombe also on the Washburn Carter rope. The summit was reached again, but this time in the most perfect weather conditions and many pictures were taken...