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The first of these inducements needs no explanation. The second depends in part upon the ease with which the transition from inshore to offshore waters can be reached from Woods Hole, on the abruptness of that transition, and on proximity to the continental slope and abyss. At the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Bigelow Heads Oceanographic Institute Begun by $2,500,000 Rockefeller Foundation Gift | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

In a university of the size of Harvard it is unpreventable that the progression of the various Departments should display a broken line of advance. But it is also singularly unfortunate that the departments where practical demonstration and experiment, and consequently the equipment, are of paramount importance, should be the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROWDED LABORATORIES | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

With characteristic biologic modesty, the cholera bacteriophage had been at work long before it was discovered and named. There have always been cholera patients who recovered spontaneously; many a village in India has remained free from cholera while the epidemic raged around it. These patients had an abundance of bacteriophages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: D'Herelle v. Cholera | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

THE NATURE OF MAN?George A. Dorsey?Harper ($1). In a short preface to this small book, Author Dorsey, of Why We Behave Like Human Beings, says: "This book . . . aims especially to introduce you to the important known facts of human nature and to such biologic hypotheses as can be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Apple Pie, Red Pepper | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

The Loser. His lifelong application to biologic detail cost Darwin dear (suggests Author Bradford) in other fields of interest: in literature, history, politics; in esthetic enjoyment of nature; in religion. Some Catholics asked him what he was. "A sort of a Christian," he said. Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Saint Darwin | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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