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Highland Park Press, 1 May 1930, p. 16

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AFRICAN ANIMAIS After nearly a year’s hunting trip in the African bush, during which he made important aoolotrieal collections for Field Museum of Natural His. tory, Captain Hurold White of New York, leader of the Harold White- John Coats Expedition to Abyuinin, i'antpmyika and Kenya has returned to this country. The expedition was eminently suc- censful, having obtained practically teery kind of animal listed " objec- tivu at the time it was organized. Outstanding among the animals ob.. tained by Captain White and his party are live excellent specimens of the reticulated Ytrttfhr to be used in an elaborate group representing a water hole at which Jungle beasts congregate; several white dik diks representing a little known variety of the world's smallest species of an- telope; three tine specimens of aard- vark, which is a species of ant-eater very ditticult to secure; a hitherto un- known type of mountain Chamois and several rare antelopes which may prove to be new species; Grant gaz- elles, oryx, black rhinoceros and lions. Many species of birds and small mammals were also collected. Some 12,000 feet of moving picture-tum were taken of animals in their native haunts, including some reels of lions in one of which a group of 17 is shown together. A Field Museum Expedition Re. turns with Notable Collec- tion of Wild Ggme Members of Party The expedition had as co-leader with Captain White, Major Juhn Coats of Ayrshire, Scotland. Other members of the putty were U. J. Al- brecht of the museum stair, and George E. Carey of Baltimore. in Africa a large caravan including sev- eral other white men, many native assistants. and trains of camels, mules nnd other pack animals, was organized to faciliute the expedi- tion's work.. "Our work was greatly expedited by the Wonderful eo-operation extend- ed by the nogus. or king, of Abyssin- ia, Ras 'rttftari, “Captain White re- ported to Director Simms., "The mu- seum and the members of the expedi- tion Ire under great obligation to him, for without his usistance and good will the work in Abyuinia could scarcely have been successfuly con- ducted. Dejuzmatch Batu, governor of Sidamo Province, was mother of. tieial who aided us materially." t'aptain White took oppirtunity to make comprehensive observations of conditions in Abyssinia. and he dis- counts recent reports 'which have reached the outside world concern- ing slavery there. r - Slivery Not Problem sinia," Captain White stated. "Re. “Slavery is not it problem in Abys- ports concerning it have been great- ly exaggerated. Slavery there is practically nonexistent today, and the tew sur-ttlied slaves that remain are living on almost equal terml with their malters. There in, how. ever, still a feudal system of serious . roportiomt." Captain White laid he had experi- enced nearly'every type of transpor- tation, from the most ancient to the most modern, during the course of the expedition. The range of his tra- vels included long trips afoot or with camels, mules and native porters, small boats, ateamahipa, railroads, and a long airplane trip from Nairobi to London. In the course of the flight he paralleled in a day and a half a trip he had previously taken with camel caravan which had re- quired more than six months. Lake Goes Dry The expedition discovered that Lake Stefanie, one of the largest Abyssin- ian lakes, not visited by white men since about 1900, has gone dry, prob- ably permanently, Captain White said. As a result of this discovery, leading map publishers of London are changing their maps. In making this trip to the basin of the former lake, the camel caravan had to travel for miles amending passes in the mountains to an altitude of about 10,000 feet. The ordeal cost the lives of M camels. All human and animal life has disappeared from the moun- tain-surrounded bed of the dried-up lake, the party found. Captain White found that ettorts are being made by the Abyssinians to open up their country and exploit its natural resources. after remain- ing for many years shut oft from the rest of the world. Concessions have been let for operating the gold mines which once belonged to King Solo- mon, and for mining the eountry's platinum,. in which precious metal the country is said to possess the world's second greatest supply. Ne- gutiutions are now under way to ob.. tain the aid of outside capital, Cap- tain White declared. Ranged by Inca-u Abyssinia has recently been rav- aged by swarms of locusts, which lly large areas bare within 24 hours. Abyssinians had failed to find the source of the pest. Captain White discovered the breeding places, and also some parasites which are now being effectually used, " his sugges- tion, as a means of stamping out the destructive hoppers. Remember the days when you put a sunny sack over the ice in your re- frigerator? The gunny lack pre- vented the cold in the ice from escap- ing, and directed it into the food com- partment: of the refrigerator. The same principle operated when you enclose your radiators in cabinets, according to the Plumbing and Kent- ine Industries Bureau. This has been deflnitelrproved in experiments con- ducted by Professor A. C. Willard of the University of Illinois Professor Willard installed a n- tory which was constructed within I diator in a special two-room labora- larger refrigerated heat-proof room. He then turned on the radiator, Ind made careful checks on temperature in the laboratory. _ Radiator Cabinets in Tests Prove Efficient This procedure was repeated with the radiator enclosed in different types of cabinets. He then compared the results of the different tests, and found that the rudiator performed in I cabinet. most 'sftieiently when it was enclosed Probably the reuon for this is that the cabinet, with its solid back, acts is a reflector for the heat Ind spread: it uniformly through the room in which it is used. The beck also prevents a part of the heat trim being oboorbed by the idiot-ht won. Thursday, Mly 1, 1930

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