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...Century. It read: "Anti-Semitic Fishermen Please Take Notice-A somewhat unusual episode in the campaign for better relations between Jews and Gentiles is the renaming of the 'Jew fish,' which hereafter is to be called the 'June fish,' at least in the New York aquarium. Jews protested that a fish 'so ugly and so named was an insult to their race...
...narrow canal, smothered to death in the gastric juices of the human stomach. How can civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium at the London Zoo, a stalwart oyster champion, called attention to the following evolutionary axiom: "The higher the form of life an animal has, the more keenly it suffers...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, president, American Museum of Natural History: "Last week my wife and our curator's wife, Mrs. Barnum Brown, and Mrs. Childs Frick, poured tea for a company of museum and aquarium directors, Manhattan officials and society folk in a newly finished hall on the fourth floor of the American Museum. Over and around us towered the colossal skeletons of 47-foot tyrannosaunis rex, of 66-foot brontosaurus, or 'thunder lizard,' of leptoceratops, palaeoscius and many another dinosaur, of which the American Museum has the world's finest collection. The Hall of Dinosaurs which...
...President Wilson, built powder plants in West Virginia and ran them up to production of three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...
...hotel, $50,000 for the Smith College development fund, and $50,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago. He: gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some of the rarest fish in the world...