Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sharp '22, has been granted the Alexander Brown Coxe Memorial Fellowship at Yale University for research work in immunology and pathology, it was announced recently...
...Harvard Botanical Garden, at Soledad, Cuba, has carried on for 25 years research in the breeding of sugar cane and has developed several superior varieties, some for special conditions and others for general commercial cultivation...
Recognizing these facts, the Harvard Botanical Garden began its research and experiments in the hope that better varieties of cane might be developed. This work as a whole has been very successful, not alone in producing improved varieties for the shallower uplands, but also in developing varieties better adapted for the fertile lands, several of which have already been recognized as excellent for commercial cultivation...
...Tropical Plant Research Foundation of Washington, which cooperates with the Sugar Club of Cuba, has distributed these Harvard canes to over 30 plantations and experiment stations in Cuba and Central America. The cuttings for these distributions were propagated at the Club's own Experiment Station at Baragua, Cuba, Where they were sent from Soledad...
Died. Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 51, native of Japan, discoverer of the germ and the curative serum for South American yellow fever; of African yellow fever, in Accra, West Africa. He had been working in conjunction with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to find the African yellow fever germ. On the fifth day of his illness he had a monkey injected with a few drops of his own infected blood. The monkey died. Fifty other monkeys were infected and died (TIME, May 21). Thus Dr. Noguchi had discovered the African germ, and was planning to work for a serum when...