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August 21, 1948

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BLACK TIE AND CYANIDE JAR

Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE of Dr. Andrey Avinoff, a Russian lepidopterist and painter. Dr. Karl Jordan, the curator of the entomological Dept. of Rotschild's Museum in …