Word: palau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of Puerto Rico and works in a laboratory at Mayagüez, also serves as senior marine scientist for Lederle Laboratories. Some of his antibacterial finds have come from sponges collected from as far away as Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Palau in the Caroline Islands. When he arrived in Rhode Island last week, he had scarcely dried off from a scuba-diving, sponge-hunting expedition on the outermost edge of the Caribbean, between the British islands of Virgin Gorda and Anegada. Burkholder made his dives with an assistant, Robert Brody, who is completing his doctoral work...