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It {3 the opinion in some reputable quarters that the whole giant panda subject has been greatly over=pub-Helzed, and that the capture of living and dead. specimens of this rare animal of the highlands of West China by foreign sportsmen and selentife collectors has been given a great deal more space inthe new: Papers of the world than It warrants.
Such opinion does not take into consideration" the, awakening In= terest in Bngland* and America in natural history, the result of a number of extremely well written yooks by authors who know "how to make their subject appeal to the popular Imagination, It also falls to. ap~ predate the romance attached to the Ife of the explorer and. scientific coliestor in the all too few wild and unknown places eft on the earth's surface. Some of the books dealing wath this subject have actually Attained the much-coveted status of "best sellers," This being the case, it is not surprising that, when Ruth Harkness, widow of the late W. 31. Harkness, succeeded in her incredible adventure of bringing @ live baby, ant panda back from the wilds of the Chinese-Tibetan border, and safely conveyed the little creature to America, she crashed into the front pages of the world's news JRoosevelt brothers, Theodore and Hermit, while on an expedition in [the Wassu country on the Chinese Tibetan border, achieved their goal by together actually shooting a full-[grown giant panda,
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