Word: formalin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart. Studying dead giraffes was comparatively easy. Dr. Goetz dug a hole in the ground 8 ft. long and filled it with formalin to preserve his massive specimens. Most interesting to Dr. Goetz were the veins and arteries in the giraffes' long necks. To pump blood so high, giraffes' hearts weigh 25 Ibs., 40 times as much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered...
...made a formal call last week on stony old Prime Minister Malan. He walked across the lawn of Malan's Cape Town residence and reverently laid a treasure at the Prime Minister's feet. It was a bony, clumsy-looking fish about 5 ft. long, smelling of Formalin and incipient putrefaction. The Prime Minister looked at it dubiously. He is a former dominie of the Dutch Reformed Church, which does not believe in evolution...
...Formalin for Posterity. About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
...fish had been caught by a native near Anjouan, another small island. Trader Hunt heard of it and rushed to the rescue. He had no ice to preserve the prize, but he borrowed a syringe from a medical officer and injected it with Formalin...