Word: skeletonization
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...legislators get only 3.6? per mile. Vexed perhaps by that discrepancy, Ohio's Representatives did their best to make up for it last week. Meeting for the first time since a "five-minute recess" which began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions" since that date, proceeded to enter these sessions in its journal. Thereby each Representative was entitled to collect for 40 round trips between his home and Columbus which he had not taken, at a cost to Ohio taxpayers of $21,507. Dismayed were Representatives when a grudging farmer named...
...Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded...
Head of the biology section is Oscar Kirchoff, whose father was brought by Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering...
...premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold the skeleton piecemeal. .The best human skeletons now come from Mexico since he U. S. S. R. has forbidden their exportation. Inferior ones are bought from India and Japan...
Ward's will sell a good human skeleton for $105. The company sends out catalogs to 20,000 select institutional and personal customers. Current lists show that a specimen board of 50 insect pests can be had for $12, a model of a Neanderthal skull or $2.50, a series of models illustrating seven stages in human embryology for $75, an ichthyosaurus paddle for $15, a nearly complete ichthyosaurus skeleton for $300. A 300,000,000-year-old trilobite may cost as little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia...