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...announced that the report was exaggerated. Having done biological research from Maine to Puget Sound, from Tortugas to California, in Naples, Bermuda, the Philippines, Java, The Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Harvey, safe & sound, is now a professor of biology at Princeton. His wife. Ethel Browne Harvey, is a distinguished biologist. For a quarter-century. Edmund Harvey has experimented much, read enormously, to learn all he could about the phenomenon of bioluminescence-production of light by living creatures. This week he publishes a summary called Living Light (Princeton University Press...
ADVENTURES OF A BIOLOGIST...
...Adventures of a Biologist. Famed problem child of British scientists, prolific science writer, expert on poison gas, big, bristly-tempered, 47-year-old Biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane believes that life without adventure is "like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances...
Public Trust. Mass-Observation is an organization founded three years ago in Britain by a young biologist and a young poet. Part social club, part scientific society, its members with the aid of some paid employes conduct on an amateur scale something vaguely resembling FORTUNE'S survey. They publish their findings in a periodical titled Us. In a recent issue Us reported that "mistrust of the newspapers is a commonplace with every section of the population...
After reducing five very objectionable characters down to one-foot size and doing away with two of them when he finds they are growing back to normal, the shaven-pated Dr. Thorkel is himself done in by the remaining three midgets. These murderers of the "greatest biologist in the world" regain their original stature and wander back to civilization, two of them finding true love...