Word: mollusc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conklin is primarily an embryologist, whose chief scientific work was done with such material as the eggs of the sea squirt and of a little mollusc named Crepidula. But he got his start in science before extreme specialization was as fashionable as it is today. So he is something of a jack-of-all-biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called...
...admit he was right. His good friend, Caltech's famed Thomas Hunt Morgan, once an extreme proponent of the mutation theory, now admits that evolution cannot work without natural selection. But Conklin has had to take cracks in return from his friend Morgan. Remembering Conklin's famous mollusc studies, when the first Conklin daughter was born, Dr. Morgan suggested naming her Crepidula...
...best sites for your satiation. The Union Street restaurant is an extremely old and picturesque building (with a much worn oyster bar, sawdust, and beams on the first floor, and a remodeled second floor, quiet, dimly lighted, and suitable for the entertainment of ladies. Every conceivable sort of fish, mollusc, and crustacean is on the bill, and all are handled well, though simply. The chowder, of all sorts is good; the swordfish, at times, causes an instantaneous migration of the taste-buds into a taste-bud Paradise; and one's stomach, with the appended palate, will almost literally reach...