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...current issue of Natural History, Jennie E. Harris describes the male musk deer as only 20 inches tall at the shoulders. He has no antlers. He feeds simply on spicy roots and fungi; if it were not for his redolent pouch, he would probably live a quiet, secluded life...
...Simple Onas. To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego. Their only clothing was a skin cape. They ate meat, seafood and fungi, washed themselves with liver. They did not drink or smoke, had determinedly rigid standards of chastity. They attached no prestige to wealth. They were free of restraints of government, seldom gathering in large groups except to eat a dead whale. They counted up to five only...
...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...
This is the correct version as quoted to me by its author, [the late] Professor A. H. Reginald Buller, F.R.S., etc., etc., onetime professor of botany at the University of Manitoba. . . . This world authority on fungi found enough time . . . to write many such light verses, some of which were inspired by what he saw through a high-power lens. Not a little of this time was spent in trying to get credit for the above, which first appeared over his name in Punch. In his own words: "I don't mind the credit going to Bishops, Wits, Established Authors...
...jungle room, damp and hot, where test materials can be infected with fungi and mold...