Word: shellfish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Animal Variations. Dr. Frank Collins Baker, curator of the museum of natural history of the University of Illinois, found in a Wisconsin artificial lake several species of shellfish peculiar to fresh running water. At the end of the lake where streams entered, the mollusks had remained true to type. At the other, their shells had thickened; grown stubbier. This situation apparently proved that environment produces new varieties in low-grade forms of life...
...Adopted the conference report on the Postal Pay and Rate Increase Bill, 370 to 8. (Went to Senate.) ¶ Passed a Deficiency Appropriation Bill carrying among other items, $57,600 for an investigation of diseases communicable through oysters and other shellfish and $125,000 to pay informers who gave tips to Customs men which enable them to catch smugglers of jewelry and other valuables.* An amendment was attached on the floor to increase the salary of the President's Secretary from $7,500 to $10,000. Representative Sanders of Indiana, who was to become the President's Secretary...
...York Board of Health reports 300 cases of typhoid in widely scattered sections of the city. Attempts are being made to locate the source of infection, which a careful inspection of the water and milk supply has failed to disclose. Oysters and other shellfish are under suspicion as possible means of solution. Dr. Frank J. Monayhan, head of the New York Board of Health, attributes the prevalence of the disease to the abnormally dry weather...
...there was abundant water underlying the Sahara Desert, for artesian wells sunk at many points in the great waste, both by the French authorities and by natives, have invariably proved productive. Now, marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa...