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...those who are interested in platypuses came to Romer Library, on the first floor of the MCZ, on Monday to hear Peter D. Temple-Smith give a seminar on the animal. Temple-Smith is from Tasmania and before he came to Cornell Medical School as a post-doctoral student, he spent two years trapping platypuses "on a fairly regular basis," to study the male's crural glands, which secrete the poison that it releases through its spurs...
Jenkins keeps an echidna named Frances on the second floor of the new MCZ labs. He has been studying the locomotion of the echidna, which is a Mesozoic mammal. So is the platypus, but before Jenkins makes conclusions about those early mammals, he says he has to determine what makes them living fossils. "The difficulty in using these as analogs for Mesozoic mammals is that on top of their primitive features are a whole range of specialized features related to their aquatic and fossorial [digging] functions," Jenkins says...
...same for Douglas Dillon; A great big grant for Victor Jones, And for the MCZ, some bones; An insect necktie for Williams, Carroll For Douglas Bryant, a Widener Carrel. And we'll relive the Battle of the Boyne again Led by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. And could we forget, at this gladsome Yule Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule? Courteousely our hats we'll doff, then. For Kenneth and for Stanley Hoffmann. Free, Moira, yes. And flee, Thanatos! While we drink to James Yannatos. A nice new Bible would be For Peter and Charles P. Price, loast Muhammed Ali, and his awesome fight...
Winslow Briggs, Biology Malcolm Gillis, Economics Herbert Levi, MCZ Thomas Pettigrew, Social Relations Paul Weaver. Government
Geological Sciences Zvi Griliches, Economics L.H. Loomis, Mathematics Willard Van Quine, Philosophy Ernest Williams, MCZ...