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...prevails between U.S. and British scientists working on military devices. Harvard's Conant, a chemist by trade and a member of NDRC, recently spent a month in Britain sharing his secrets, filling his head with new ones. Britain's scientific ambassador to the U.S. is Charles Gallon Darwin, grandson of the great evolutionist and head of Britain's National Physical Laboratory...
...Charles Darwin wrote: "Without the work of this humble creature, who knows nothing of the benefits he confers upon mankind, agriculture, as we know it, would be very difficult, if not wholly impossible." The great evolutionist was referring to the lowly earthworm...
...young Texas physician and surgeon named George Sheffield Oliver read Darwin's book on earthworms. A descendant of the James Oliver who invented the steel plow, George Oliver was living on a five-acre plot, and he decided to try earthworm culture on his grounds. Soon earthworms were such a big part of his life that he gave up his medical practice for them. Today Dr. Oliver is the author of a three-volume treatise on earthworms, a subject on which he is acknowledged by many to be the world's No. 1 authority. His story was told...
...leaves, decaying organic matter of all sorts. The waste material they throw off as worm casts is one of the richest of all plant foods. Moreover, worm tunnels-air the soil, helping the oxygen and nitrogen metabolism of plants. And the tunnels make fine watering tubes, facilitate rainfall storage. Darwin estimated that a healthy English acre ought to have about 2,500,000 worms, turning out 18 tons of casts a year...
Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan...