Word: larvae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These antique legends point back & back to a Garden of Eden, unrecognized by Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world...
...allowing it to sink, judging the depth by counting to a certain number, then striking on the supposition that a fish had taken his fly. Also extraordinary is his method of fishing a stream with a gft. leader, with three flies: nymph (to represent larva) at the bottom, a wet fly above it. with a Royal Coachman at the top to serve as a marker for a strike at one of the lower flies. Most fishermen will find that they have tried one or more of Author Bergman's tricks with wet flies but few will find that they...
When an oyster egg hatches it produces a larva. The larva eventually "settles" and cements itself as a "spat" to a clean submerged stone or old shell, where it grows until big enough to eat. Just what makes the spats settle has always been an ostreiculture problem. Last week Herbert F. Prytherch of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries gave an answer, in Science...
...some lizards and other reptiles and in the larva of the lamprey, the pineal gland is on a stalk (like a crayfish's eyes) and is near the top of the head. Here it has a distinguishable retina and lens. French Philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) believed: "There is a small gland [the pineal] in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions more particularly than in the other parts." Contemporaries agreed...