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...mysterious "mosaic disease" or "yellows" which attacks peach trees, tobacco, sugar cane, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel...
...eggs, wizened grape-fruit, oily orange-juice, moribund chops, all-wool pancakes, bilious liver, vegetables that smell as sweet by any other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor of the Elephants, it must be asserted that they have not been pampered with the edible...
Died, Dr. Theobald Smith, 75, famed immunologist, pathologist (TIME, Nov. 30, 1931); of heart failure; in Manhattan. In 1893 Dr. Smith established the principle of insect-borne infection and practically wiped out "Texas fever," scourge of cattle. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research placed him on its maiden directorate in 1901, where he served until his death...
...Insect noises are not produced vocally, but are made by friction of one part of the body against another, by vibrations of the wings, by vibration of a muscularly controlled diaphragm, or by hitting the body against some external object...
...collected hitherto unknown species of flightless mountain beetles, some unusual ground insects, some fine river-living beetles from 3000-4000 feet; some frogs peculiar to the region from 5000 feet to the summit; some reptiles from 3000-5000 feet; and six peripatus, a caterpillar-like insect which lives in damp tropical regions...