For Ditmars, a Bushmaster

Long have New Yorkers been accustomed to seeing each summer begin with some such headline as DITMARS SAILS TO HUNT BUSHMASTER, end with DITMARS BACK; NO BUSHMASTER. It was, therefore, a metropolitan milestone last week when word flashed from the Caribbean that the 25-year search of Dr. Raymond Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's famed reptile man. was over at last. His bushmaster, a great snake whose bite is the deadliest in the American tropics, had been caught by a white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow (12 ft.), it behaved characteristically by refusing to eat. But it drank copiously, gave every indication of a willingness to bite Dr. Ditmars at the first opportunity. Should that happen, with no serum handy, Dr. Ditmars would probably die in less than ten minutes.

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