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...Eastern duck hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...
...species and the present conception of evolution that has grown from it. Another topic might be the Mendelian theory of the inheritance of characteristics, or Patseur's work on sterilization. A point of far-reaching importance that will posisbly be discussed is the greater collaboration of chemist and biologist...
Professor Crozier, the third and last speaker of the evening, talking from the point of view of the Biologist, showed at considerable length that Biological processes are essentially and fundamentally the same as inorganic ones...
...Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished clubman but a stutterer; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Law Professor Francis Bowes Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Harvard Consultant-on-Careers Augustus Lowell Putnam (nephew); Biologist Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted ex-president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian who, like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed...
Julian S. Huxley, famous biologist of King's College, London, and Lowell lecturer this year, will speak in Sanders Theatre on the topic of "Ants and Men" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The address, given under the auspices of the Society of Sigma XI, will be open to the public...