Word: ichthyologist
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...Manhattan Ichthyologist Christopher W. Coates of the Aquarium received from the General Electric laboratories in Schenectady a potentiometer for measuring the voltage of electric eels. Mr. Coates inserted the electrodes in the water, agitated the eel, read the voltage. Eels developed from 170 to 300 volts...
...TIME, May 27, Miscellany, you tell of Dentist Klein performing a Caesarean operation on his lady guppy. No ichthyologist would call this the first. This is a common occurrence in domesticated tropical fish. About five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...honors of the film go to Ned Sparks who suggests that the story of Aunt Jemima be told using the name of Aunt Delilah as the pegro cook who first had the recipe for the best tasting pancake batter in the world and to Warren Williams as the ichthyologist who falls in love with Colbert but cannot marry her because the daughter has fallen in love with him and the marriage would separate the mother and daughter which would be terrible judging by the experience of Aunt Delilah whose nearly white daughter has disowned her because she is colored thereby...
...weeks later, just before the case came to trial, Schoor decided to pay a $12.50 fine. Having summoned the jury, however, the presiding justice of the peace let the prosecution call its witnesses. From the New York Aquarium came an ichthyologist to testify that no pickerel in his experience had ever shrunk more than a quarter of an inch. Indignantly Emil Schoor changed his mind about dropping the case, asked for a change of venue. The court refused the petition, clapped the defendant in jail. Released on bail, Schoor went to the State Supreme Court, got his change of venue...
...Altman took the monster to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and laid it on the desk of Ichthyologist Eugene Willis Gudger. Dr. Gudger had never seen such a thing before but he is versed in old and curious lore, knew instantly what it was. It was, he told Mr. Altman, a "Jenny Haniver." Dr. Gudger photographed the thing, began a systematic collation of data on Jenny Hanivers, ancient and modern, which last week he published in the June Scientific Monthly...