Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote a British zoologist during the recent European crisis to Dr. Leslie Clarence Dunn, professor of zoology at Columbia University. So across the Atlantic, to the enviable security of the U. S., voyaged eleven black, smooth-haired rats...
...young rats manifests the lethal defect. Four of the females littered last week, and the colony now numbers about 30. Since zoologists by studying such anomalies can cast more light on the mystery of heredity transmission in the chromosomes, several U. S. scientists have expressed great interest in Dr. Dunn's new boarders. He plans soon to ship specimens to other laboratories...
...well-established fact of genetic science is that certain characteristics tend to be transmitted in groups. In Dr. Dunn's rats, for example, all of the soft-skeletoned individuals also have pink eyes...
Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs...
...Perhaps," says Dr. Dunn in the current issue of Columbia's Independent Journal, "it will be necessary to establish a central haven for the threatened stocks of scientifically useful animals and plants from all nations. Perhaps it should be as far as possible from a seacoast and remote from the danger of air attacks. Perhaps it should be near that hole in the ground in Kentucky where we keep our spare gold...