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Dogs. The "love me love my dog" attitude toward house dogs that are treated like human being was deplored by Dr. Minas Joannides of Minneapolis, who charged this intimate companion of man with spreading tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and smallpox; fleas, lice, ticks, worms and many another danger...
...canal leading up the spinal column to the brain. He has hair and warm blood like other animals. He produces young in the same way. He suffers from the same poisons as do the great apes, and from diseases similar to theirs. He is even preyed upon by similar lice and fleas. He differs in degree, to be sure, from other animals, but not in kind. And those animals set down as his nearest relatives are more and more nearly like him in these respects. Indeed, there is less anatomical difference between man and the higher apes than between...
...honored when a Wellesley newspaper places it in that category of places to which journalism so rarely applies biblical verses. But we regret that Wellesley has already imbibed the spirit of Dr. Moffatt's new version of the Bible. Dr. Moffatt felt justified in changing 'ark' to 'barge' and 'lice' to 'mosquitoes' so that the Bible again might become a living document. Is it by the same logic, then, that the Wellesley newspaper uses the word 'asses' when the text properly construes 'she asses...
More. Experiments conducted on plant lice and similar animals tend to show that sex is neither entirely hereditary nor environmental, but is determined by the effect of bodily activity.-Dr. A. Franklin Shull, University of Michigan...
Artificial Fertilization. Biologists had long known that certain low invertebrates, such as rotifers or plant lice, normally reproduce themselves without fertilization by the male, by a process called parthenogenesis (virgin birth). Loeb proved that in many other species parthenogenesis can be induced artificially by treating the egg in various ways, i.e., keeping it in sea water, in salt or sugar concentrations at a certain temperature, in certain acid solutions, pricking it with a needle. In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive. Similar results were obtained with starfish, worms...