BIRD JOINS BYRD
YOUNG BIOLOGIST FOR FAR SOUTH
JOINING ANTARCTIC PARTY Mr. J. R. Bird, of Boston, is on his way to join Commander Richard E. Byrd in the Antarctic. Though there is a similarity in their names and aims, the two men are not related, nor have they met. Mr. Bird is a young biologist who will fill one of the few scientific gaps in the big South Polar party. Arriving at Auckland yesterday on the Niagara. Mr. Bird, who is immensely tall and smokes an outsize in briar pipes, confessed to a certain shyness where publicity, and especially cameras, were concerned. However, he explained that private business had prevented him from joining the Byrd expedition at the outset. He hoped to travel South in the City of New York and assist generally iu biological work, with particular reference to the bird life of the Antarctic. Thus, he might have claimed, a Bird was to see Byrd about birds.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 16
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