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...that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began to go in families and hordes . . . unselfishness of mothers, devotion of fathers and disinterestedness of friends began to operate. Such a patchwork is homo sapiens. It is hard to imagine any purely terrestrial epidemic or insect scourge that would wipe...
...Thompson of Barberton, Ohio owns a blue alarm clock. One day last month his wife noticed that a spider, which she described as a "tiny black dot," had somehow got between the face and the glass. From minute hand to hour hand the insect stretched and tethered its silky strands. The hands moved on, tore them asunder. Next hour the spider tried again; again the hands revolved, destroyed. The spider was still trying when the alarm sounded next morning. Friends & neighbors came to watch as day by day the hands grew fusty with gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound...
...little insect is the botfly. It irritates cattle and has no bristles. Odder still is a nameless fly, distant cousin to the housefly, whose larvae live by crawling into other insects, such as Japanese beetles and gypsy moths, and eating them from the inside. Between these two flies science recognized no kinship, but the Smithsonian Institution's Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between...
...National Institute of Health to follow the lead of Dr. Kenneth Fuller Maxcy, who had left the Institute to become professor of public health and hygiene at the University of Virginia. Dr. Maxcy knew that U. S. inhabitants are seldom lousy, suspected that some other blood-sucking insect might be the vector of mild U. S. typhus. Dr. Dyer, who in his career had dealt with rat-borne bubonic plague, suspected rat fleas, proved his hypothesis correct-first on guinea pigs, next (by accident) on two assistants, Martin Joseph Mannix and Dr. Elmer Theodore Ceder, lastly upon himself. "Where...
Many of the lectures will be illustrated by films of collective insect, bird, and animal social life, some of them by courtesy of Martin Johnson, the explorer. Flocks of birds, herd life of mammals, and primitive ape communities will be carefully studied...