Word: zoologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
Annoy an Oyster. Back in 1890 Mikimoto heard a Japanese zoologist lecture on the possibility of cultivating pearls. Why not implant an irritant like a grain of sand in a baby oyster, see if the oyster would coat it with layers of nacre, and thus form a pearl? Mikimoto decided...
...wings and hind body of a capercailzie. . . . Very little is known about the habits of the skvader. Owing to the great wing loading, its flyability is probably poor, if any. The taxidermist, who prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able to say for certain whether the hare was the mother and the capercailzie the father, or vice versa. One school of scientists have even gone so far as to express doubts that the parents were alive at the time of their union. These unfounded suspicions have, however, been...
Better than Raisins. In New Orleans, Tulane Zoologist Edward Hathaway deplored the wasteful practice of discarding flour containing clean, nutritious, wholesome weevils...
Died. Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, 75, University of Pennsylvania zoologist and geneticist who discovered the relationship between chromosomes and sex determination by examining grasshoppers (he collected 100,000, once had a 20-man WPA team helping him cut them up); of a heart attack; in Swarthmore...