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...Left Book Club's May issue. For their 2s.6d. (60?), the 5,000 initial subscribers received a timely study called France Today and the People's Front, by burly, bull-necked Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, and Out of the Night: A Biologist's View of the Future, by Texas University's famed Professor Hermann Joseph Muller. Five-feet-two with eyes of blue, wee Professor Muller has been experimenting in genetics at the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. Some monstrous fruit flies which he grew under x-rays made the first...
When Huxley's son wrote his distinguished father's official Life and Letters, he thought he had winnowed all the posthumous grain from the stack of his father's papers, but apparently he overlooked a youthful diary. Grandson Julian, also a biologist, found it after his father's death, last week published it with an introduction and notes. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage oj H. M. S. Rattlesnake, like Darwin's Diary of the Voyage...
Last week in Scientific Monthly, Biologist William Franklin Dove of the University of Maine showed that Cuvier was wrong. Dr. Dove's own researches had revealed that at birth the horn buds were not attached to the skull but were independent "centres of ossification." Accordingly, he decided to try making a unicorn of a day-old Ayrshire. Flaps of skin containing the horn cores were cut out and the cores were joined in the centre, at the top end of the suture in the bone...
...Dove points out that, 19 centuries ago, Pliny described almost the same method of creating artificial unicorns. The Maine biologist concludes that the bright myth of the unicorn may not have arisen solely from man's unaided imagination but from artful transplantation by ancient shepherds, who created single-horned animals to serve as dominant and easily distinguished leaders of their herds...
...heredity mechanisms under the microscope. Dr. Bridges knows a great deal about genes, the infinitesimal control switches of heredity, and he has detected in the chromosomes of his little insects patterns that may consist of the genes themselves (TIME, March 9). In Los Angeles last week photographers snapped the biologist standing beside a strange three-wheeled automobile. Designer and builder of the automobile was none other than Dr. Calvin Blackman Bridges...