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...important plants on earth are grass and diatoms. About grass the shepherd, farmer and scientist know a great deal. About diatoms and dinoflagellates, which are microscopic sea plants (phytoplankton), until the last 30 or 40 years even the scientist has known little. Last week in The Scientific Monthly Marine Biologist Winfred Emory Allen of University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography surveyed his recent researches on diatoms in the Pacific Ocean...
Most baffling of man's seven ages is adolescence. A few years ago a commission of the Progressive Education Association undertook to find out what makes adolescents tick. In a monumental five-year study it examined thousands, collected over 600 case histories. Fortnight ago a Swiss biologist and psychologist, Peter Bios, friend of Sigmund Freud, summed up the commission's findings in a report on four representative youngsters named Betty, Paul Mary and Joe (The Adolescent Personality; D. Appleton-Century...
...Writes Biologist-Rhetorician Donald Culross Peattie: "What science calls for today are life histories and ecological studies. . . ." So, while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...
Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...
...Pennsylvania is peacock-proud of its brain collection (at the University-sponsored Wistar Institute), picks its pickled prizes with discrimination. Last week it blundered. The University of Pennsylvania Today announced the addition of famed British Biochemist J. B. S. Haldane's brain, meant that of his late father, Biologist John Scott Haldane. When last heard from, hulking, shaggy, tweedy John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was very much alive, hard at work in his University of London chair, editing the London Daily Worker...