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Last week Dr. Poulton brought into court certain characteristics which could not possibly have been developed by inherited experience, since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...
...Gromov and companions had covered a geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...
...idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was last week giving some concern to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, because it has been found that chameleons help Florida celery growers by eating destructive caterpillars and moths, and the Department now believes that they help suppress insect pests on other truck crops in Southeastern and Gulf States. No law banning their sale was yet in sight, but in answer to hundreds of inquiries from chameleon purchasers the Department sent out bulletins on "The American Chameleon and Its Care...
...found a drowned black widow spider in the bottom of his Coca-Cola bottle, Curator Fattig put a live, wriggling black widow spider into his mouth, crunched and swal- owed it, sat quietly in the courtroom the rest of the session. Since chemical action of carbonated water sterilizes insect matter, Curator Fattig thinks nothing at all of downing such sodaed morsels as grasshoppers, houseflies, small toads and frogs, wasps, stink bugs, beetles, caterpillars, earthworms, centipedes...
Maintenance activity on the Northern front yesterday indicated that the University may be facing another insect war. Reports that a herd of termites had been seen entering the Yard called forth spade men who were seen at work throughout the afternoon around the Chinese whatsis, or dragon, by Boylston Hall...