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...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...
...ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic cop on his boat in Harlem are excellent sources for news stories...
...Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano...
...sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked President Hoover's Rapidan camp (choicest varieties were kept in the White House), the Woolaroc ranch of Oilman Frank Phillips, the Bureau of Fisheries' aquarium exhibition. Fish Master Nakashima does not raise his goldfish for scientific experiments, but some of them may find their way into laboratories...