Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of rare and curious stuffed birds has just been received by the University Museum at Harvard from Dutch New Guinea and the Moluccas...
...roosters, which Freshen living in Grays Hall claimed had been continually disturbing them at all hours of the early morning with their crowings, were being accommodated on the top floor of Boylston Hall, where Dr. M. H. Elliott, instructor of Physiology keeps a small menagerie of guinea pigs, rats, and squirrels for physiological observation. No statement was made as to how the corpses were to be disposed...
...Dyer & associates, having determined that the flea as well as the louse is a carrier of typhus, concentrated on treatments. They pulverized infected fleas, rubbed the mash into scratches which they made on the bodies of monkeys and guinea pigs. When Dr. Dyer's staff let typhus fleas bite the vaccinated animals, typhus fever developed in only half the animals. Whereupon the investigators prepared a more potent vaccine with which they will inoculate themselves. They are confident that at last they have the treatment and preventive of typhus as it appears...
...constructed a fiber tube, into which the guinea pig may craw!; one end of the tube opening into an ordinary dynamic radio loudspeaker. On one side of the tube is a door, through which a little drum may be placed, and as the pig breathes pressure causes the drum to contract, raising and lowering a pointer which marks on a revolving smoked drum. This apparatus is rather amusing, for the guinea pig crawls into it without any encouragement, and once inside never attempts to move. When the experimenting is over, one merely points the tube toward the light...
...Stavsky, tutor in Animal Psychology is conducting an experiment in an attempt to investigate the orientation of different animal forms in a field of gravitational force. A rat or a guinea pig is placed upon an inclined plane in a position parallel to the base of the plane. The animal is negatively geotropic, that is, it naturally tends to climb up when placed upon a sloping surface...