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...clamshells. Fried or frittered, roasted or chowdered, mussels may be eaten, like oysters, during the "R" months. But while oysters are not harvested during the summer because they are propagating, summer mussels are not harvested because they are dangerous if they have been feeding on a variety of plankton (Gonyaulax catenella), which contains a powerful alkaloid poison. Diggers should pass up the long, purplish-yellow mussels, tough and poor-tasting, in favor of the slate-black, chunky variety...
...infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured and killed in 1907. Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History placed on exhibition her remains, whalebone and all-largest skeleton of the species ever...
...Zoological Club.--"Some Plankton Studies of the Deep Lakes of Idaho and Washington." Mr. J. F. Bovard. Room 46., Zoological Laboratory...
...Zoological Club.--"Some Plankton Studies of the Deep Lakes of Idaho and Washington." Mr. J. F. Bovard. Room 46, Zoological Laboratory...