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...your account (TIME, Nov. 26) of the award to Dr. Urey of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry you mention "a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building" (of Columbia University). Are you sure it was a woodcock? That bird has some amazing traits, but the craziest among them would not, I believe, have been seen (much less captured) in such a foreign locality, even though the sill were old and wormy...
...woodcock which flew against a window of the Columbia chemical laboratory. It was rescued by Professor Arthur Warren Hixson, who identified it, took it home, let it tamp for worms in his garden until it had recovered strength to fly on. Professor Hixson has seen many another migratory bird at Columbia (hawk, merganser, sandpiper), believes they are attracted by the green of the campus, get lost among the buildings...
Incubator eggs might hatch better if less attention were paid to uniform temperature and more to reproducing actual conditions beneath a setting bird. That idea occurred to N. A. Meshcheryakov of Moscow's Zoological Park. Eggs beneath a setting mother are several degrees warmer on top than at the bottom. Every time the bird leaves the nest for food or exercise the eggs cool off a little...
...littered desk rang one afternoon last week. "Thank you," said Dr. Urey to friends, students, colleagues. "Thank you....Thank you....Thank you." Someone brought into his office on Columbia University's campus a woodcock captured on a windowsill of the chemistry building. Dr. Urey suggested the bird be taken out of the city and freed in the woods. He was in a jovial mood. Word had just arrived from Stockholm that he had been awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry...
...fanciest title belongs to the simplest canvas: Skull and Its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Has the Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest. An elongated grand piano is flying off into the air. The keyboard runs earthward into a heart-shaped skull which is indeed leaning on a night table. Sharp eyes can find the cardinal bird, but there is no nest...