Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herelle's resignation made no headlines, but in New York a development in his specialty did. Tucked away in the New York Aquarium's annual report a Sun newshawk had discovered this modest paragraph...
...investigated, promptly reported a sensational discovery which might be a major contribution to medicine. Other newspapers followed suit. Scientists were interested but less exuberant. Charles Marcus Breder Jr. is the Aquarium's able young assistant director. After the War, which kept him from going to college, he got a job with the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, went to the Aquarium in 1921. Three years ago he began to investigate the reason why unchanged water in balanced aquaria$#134; sometimes does not become foul. He discovered an active bacteriophage both in old aquarium water and in the intestinal contents...
...Christopher William Coates, had also gone into the Army instead of to college, but had kept up his study of fish during the after years in which he was earning a living in the radio business. The discovery set Fishman Coates to thinking. If the phage destroyed bacteria in aquarium water. why shouldn't it destroy them in human infections...
...bones. Ichthyologists think it may belong to a family of specialized and degenerate percoids (perch, sunfish). Only six have been taken from their habitat, the deep Pacific waters off the North American coast. Seattle residents and visitors may now see a Willoughby's ragfish in an aquarium unique in the U. S., if not in the world. George Yaeger is the Scandinavian manager of the Port of Seattle's Frozen Fish Department. No scientist, he is an oldtime practical fishman. Twelve years ago he decided that if Seattle could not afford an aquarium for exhibiting live fishes...
Among the many advantages which research students have at their disposal in this building are work-shops for the construction of scientific apparatus, cold rooms, brine-cooled to six degrees Centigrade, dark rooms, a terrarium room, an aquarium room, a corridor of sound-proof rooms, and a constant temperature room. The last is cork insulated, provided with a vestibule, and equipped with a thermostated steam radiator, thermostated brine coils, and air circulator, so adjusted that it is possible to secure constancy of internal temperature within one degree for any temperature between zero and forty degrees Centigrade...