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...even, with coaching, learn to talk. Finished rubbing his eyes, simple-minded van Toch planned merely to use his pets for pearl-fishing, but he had to get capital to do it, and once capital got involved in the thing there was hell to pay. Before you could say genus Molge there were newts all over the place: newts (bred now scientifically in huge watery enclosures and farmed out as cheap labor) building dams and breakwaters, reconstructing shorelines and adding to continents; newt-conscious intellectuals and artists, newt-inspired cinemas and musical comedies; newt-problems before the League of Nations...
...detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said, seemed to have forgotten how to bite. But among nearly 100 animal specimens collected there was not a single new species, let alone a new genus or a new family. A general air of disappointment was discernible. When Dr. Anthony descended at last, after ten days aloft, the others had gone off to climb nearby Wotan's Throne, another possible but not probable "biological island...
Greatest tropical animal rarity in the Western Hemisphere is the solenodon, a little insectivorous beast resembling the opossum, smaller but with a similar ratty tail and a limber prehensile snout. Zoologists know it as the family Solenodontidae, which has but a single genus: solenodon. Classified as an extremely primitive form of animal, its skeletal structure is prehistoric. It dwells in rocky, mountain burrows on the islands of Haiti and Cuba only. A victory for any U. S. zoologist is the capture, transportation and sustenance of a solenodon over any length of time. Since October 1935, when Washington's last...
This native plaster industry which has been in operation for sixty years, has presumably destroyed untold quantities of Triassic fossils. The specimen from the new chasmatosaurid genus was rescued from a rock pile destined for one of the kilns...
...related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed up. But he had no money...