Word: mayr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is a great difference between hard pesticides and biodegradable ones," Ernest Mayr, professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, noted recently...
...group of biologists including Carpenter, Mayr, and Philip J. Darlington, Jr., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, urged B and G to stop spraying the ivy long enough to allow the moth's natural predators and parasites to return...
...Mayr and Darlington both suggested that the disease would probably take a larger toll of Harvard's elms if the trees were left unsprayed. But others argue that spraying is simply a desperate attempt to "do something" about a crisis when every other approach has failed...
Crompton's new job entails considerably more than supervising animal exhibits. "Only 14 per cent of the museum's floor space is devoted to exhibits," retiring director Mayr said. "The important functions of the museum are teaching and research...
...Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, will continue to teach at Harvard. A recent recipient of the National Award for Science, he is giving up the museum directorship to devote more time to research and to his current work on the history of biological concepts...