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...Julian Sorell Huxley, well-known British biologist and popularizer, last week went to the ant. Considering the ways of this celebrated biological subject, of which more exist in the world than of any other kind of creature and which evolved a complicated social organization some 30,000,000 years ago. Dr. Huxley decided that the ant may be methodical, but it is stupid...
...ants working in the ant hills. They make indiscriminate food deliveries all around. For another, they allow a species of butterfly to invade the nests and eat the grubs. The ants tolerate this because they like a sticky substance which the butterfly exudes. "It is," commented owl-eyed Biologist Huxley, "as if a nursemaid were to allow a wolf to carry off the baby from her pram in return...
Said Edwin Grant Conklin, famed Princeton biologist and retiring A. A. A. S. president: "The ethics of science regards the search for truth as one of the highest duties of man; it regards noble human character as the finest product of evolution: it considers the service of all mankind as the universal good; it teaches that both human nature and human nurture may be improved, that reason may overcome unreason, co-operation supplement competition, and the progress of the human race through future ages be promoted by human intelligence and purpose...
...withhold from the biologist any essential information: both calves are normal in their sex characteristics. . . . There of course is no question about the bull's future as the butcher will get him shortly, but I hesitate to cut short the life of a potential milk producer without a fair trial...
...Johnson, a physician, a dentist, a kindergarten teacher, a psychoanalyst, three little girls and a female violinist (Charity) who conducts. Comparatively rich in amateur groups, Baltimore also has a "Sunday Night Group" organized by Editor Hamilton Owens of the Sun, an oboeist, which includes his wife (violin), Biologist Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins, his daughter, Mrs, Gardner Jencks, her husband and, as conductor, Bart Wirtz, head of Peabody Institute of Music's cello department...