Word: ichthyologist
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Great is the delight of that diligent ichthyologist. Dr. William Beebe, when his deep-sea dredgings bring to light a perfect specimen of a rare fish. Diligent Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, last week had a similar sensation. Out of the depths of industry he brought wriggling to the surface as tight a little group of patent holders as his monopoly investigation could desire...
...biggest puzzle however, Dr. Nett admits, is to find out what the Dodatmors think about their enormous brains. "I don't know what they think about in the Congo" the ichthyologist said. "But they didn't seem to think much about all the publicity they've been getting around here...
Chief U. S. authority on electric eels is Christopher W. Coates, head curator of Manhattan's Aquarium. Curator Coates last week told scientists in Washington that the eels may furnish a clue for electric anesthesia that might be better than the chemical anesthesia now in use. Ingenious Ichthyologist Coates has already found a practical use for these fantastic fish. For years the Manhattan Aquarium was chivied by large river rats that invaded it during the winter. The rats would climb to the top of tanks, snatch fish out, eat them. Dr. Coates bought a few cats, but they preferred...
...Explorer William Beebe returned to Manhattan last week from a six-month, 2,000-mile expedition, sponsored by the New York Zoological Society, off the west coast of Central America. Of the 20,000 specimens of marine life taken, prize catch was a 1½-inch sailfish, which Ichthyologist Beebe thought might be "the first example of a young sailfish ever captured...
...favorite sport that he was elected (November 1935) vice president of the Salt Water Anglers of America, leading big-game fishermen's association; so earnestly that he now sends odd catches to Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences (where his good friend, Henry Weed Fowler, is chief ichthyologist). He is proud that a species of rosefish has been named Neomerinthe hemingwayi in his honor. His business trips are chiefly to Manhattan, where, shying away from tea-fighting literary circles, he sees only Scribners' Editor Max Perkins (whose decorous office framed the Hemingway-Max Eastman brawl of last...