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When a flock of teal or broadbill flares past, most duck gunners would swear- especially if they have missed their shots- that the birds were moving 75 to 100 m. p. h. Last week May Thacher Cook, junior biologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, braved duck gunners' indignation. She announced that wild fowl speeds had been carefully paced by plane, automobile and timing device. Ducks and geese, said Biologist Cook, seldom have a higher cruising speed than 40 m. p. h. As far as she knew, the swiftest bird timed was a duck hawk which attained spurts...
Grouse too are scarce. Chief grouse student at the conference was Professor Alfred Otto Gross, Bowdoin biologist. Some 30 insects infest grouse; study of the conditions which favor these parasites may reveal a cycle upon which to base conservation laws. Cornell University has done much good grouse study...
...Rochester, Minn., Dr. George Marsh Higgins, Mayo Foundation biologist, revealed a relation between the amount of red clover and the number of spinsters in a given district: "Old maids keep cats. Cats prey on mice. Mice eat bumble bees' nests. Bumble bees pollinate red clover blossoms. The more pollination the better the crop...
...most compelling rebuttals was not a direct one. It came from Professor Julian Sorell Huxley. Brother of Novelist Aldous Leonard (Point Counterpoint) Huxley, and grandson of the late great Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley is himself a most distinguished biologist and eloquent member of the scientific vanguard. Speaking to the Philadelphia Forum, he said: "In the long run we must envisage the control of population in the same manner we now control contagious disease. Birth control is by no means perfect, but it is one of the major events in the world's history...
...Bigelow, professor of Oceanography, will undertake the project as an experienced marine biologist, having had training under Alexander Agassiz in 1901, aboard the Albatross on the Indian Ocean, and having since dotted his Harvard research work with expeditions for the United States Bureau of Fisheries...