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...crawl through the pages of this extraordinary zoo without screens. A commonplace grasshopper on a black-eyed Susan takes on the dazzle of a Van Gogh landscape; a mangrove glows like a Christmas tree as thousands of fireflies illuminate its heavy branches. The text, by Naturalists Lorus and Margery Milne, is full of felicities: "It is often the inconspicuous [insects] that have the greatest impact on civilization . . . The world feels right when we hear a cricket chirping." But it is the glowing pictures (by some 40 photographers) that provide the enchantment of this year's wildest bestiary...
...Lorus Grandt Wahiawa, Hawaii...
...Salt Lake City, two weeks after somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's clean washing off her wash line, somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's washing machine...
...Lorus J. Mline, 2G--to be Assistant in Zoology for the first half of 1934-35. A.B. Univ. of Toronto 1933; A.M. Harvard...
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