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...were: Geoffrey R.S. Brown of Lowell House; Scott M. Camazine of South House; Thomas L. Campbell of Leverett House; Kim B. Clark of Dudley House; Alan R. Cohen of Winthrop Daniel D. Jordan of Quincy House; Howard Kailes of Quincy House; Mitchell A. Karton of Dunster House; Steven P. Kerckhoff of Currier House; William M. House; Daniel Craig of Winthrop House; Robert A. Davis of Dudley House; David M. Dobson of Mather House; and Steven J. Erlanger of Dudley House...
...Angeles' Kerckhoff Mansion, which belongs to the University of Southern California, 70 small spiders (Zilla x-notata) are living in pampered luxury. Their room is air-conditioned, and every day delicious flies are handed to them alive. They have little paper cones to live in and water to drink from cups made of soda straws. Being creatures of inflexible habit, they spin beautifully regular webs in frames supplied for the purpose...
Alfred H. Sturtevant, Professor of Genetics and director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, has been appointed visiting lecturer on Genetics for the second half of the current academic year, the University announced Saturday...
Bubble Massage. The main curative agent in natural springs is the carbon dioxide which bubbles through the waters, said Dr. Franz Maximilian Groedel, one-time director of the Kerckhoff Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany, now adviser to the vast bathing establishment at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1935). The gas bubbles, he explained, burst against the skin, massaging certain nerves. The stimulated nerves dilate blood vessels. Some of the gas is absorbed into the tissues and acts on the superficial capillaries causing them to fill. The skin reddens and the increased flow of blood benefits because it relieves...
...President. The high honor the A. A. A. S. offers elder scientists is its presidency. President Thomas Hunt Morgan, 65, zoologist, director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences at California Institute of Technology retired at last week's meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone...