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Because of the "unbelievable" preservation of the specimen found in Illinois, a club moss cone over two hundred million years old, located in Carboniferous rock in Grundy County, scientists may have a new test for the hypothesis that the world's underground stores of petroleum derive from plant life, Darrah said...
...important discoveries were reported by the Department of Biology during the summer. On the Illinois prairies William C. Darrah, instructor in Biology, discovered "the most perfect plant fossil over found," and in the trackless forests of the Pico del Yaque Mountains in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Phillip J. Darlington, assistant curator of insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, found many new species of insects, worms, and reptiles, hitherto unknown to science...
First to break the tape was Boston's 119-lb. Francis Darrah, a seasoned distance runner at 25, whose time of 2 hr., 8 min., 14.6 sec. was the fastest ever made on foot up the mountain. Six minutes later came Paul Donato, another Bostonian, who (like Darrah) had eaten a pound of rare beefsteak for breakfast. Loudest cheers went to 45-year-old Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman...
Biology D is a very good elementary course, under the able leadership of Professor Hisaw, who lectures excellently in the second half year on zoology. Darrah was a new man last year on botany in the first half year, is still a little cautions but rapidly improving and helpful to the individual. He soon ought to put botany on the high plane Hisaw has reached in zoology. This course is recommended for non-concentrators as well...
...Robert Darrah Jeuks Scholarship, for a graduate studying Railroad Law, to Henry G. Fischer 3L, of Philadelphia, Pa., S.B. University of Pennsylvania...