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...cash, rather than honor older ones with kudos. Last week the $1,000 went to Carl Caskey Speidel, 38, associate professor of anatomy at the University of Virginia. He won it for inventing a way of seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts of the body...
Heat & Sex, The outer case of an egg is its female element, the stuffing its male element, with temperature determining the predominance of either, contended Dr. Emil Witschi of the University of Iowa. To support his argument he showed pictures of incubating frog eggs. Those which were maintained at 59° F. grew thick shells, became female polliwogs. Those maintained at 82° F. developed big insides, turned into male tadpoles...
...Frog Taft, Fish Swanson...
...frog in my fish pond answers readily to the name Bill Taft. Our favorite pet however, was a large flying fish christened Gloria Swanson. Her diet was difficult, but this was offset by a most affectionate disposition. Gloria visited the house frequently, flying from her pond through a patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft...
...assure you, your readers and Mr. Fitzgerald that Frog No. 20 was certainly capable of swallowing a larger Canadian goose, maybe two of these, or a whole flock...