Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newest of exhibits at the Fogg Museum is a collection of seventeenth century etchings and prints, among which is an unusually good etching by Van Dyke...
...Dyke Portrait...
...there is an article entitled "Lady's Worms," and a photograph of the late Lady Emily Hart Dyke...
...complaining about the rather odd way in which the article is written, but I do think you might take the trouble to see that the photographs you publish are correct ones. Lady Emily Hart Dyke was very beloved in many parts of this country, and to see her photograph printed with the words "Mismating did not daunt her," and my own name underneath it, will give pain to many people...
Some weeks ago after a batch of crossbred worms from France had begun to spin, the cocoons appeared in three different colors-white, golden yellow, near-beige. It was obvious to Lady Hart Dyke that mismating had occurred. With British doggedness she set out to trace the ancestry of the worms, to determine whether the production of the three colors could be continued and controlled along established genetic lines...