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...irritates cattle and has no bristles. Odder still is a nameless fly, distant cousin to the housefly, whose larvae live by crawling into other insects, such as Japanese beetles and gypsy moths, and eating them from the inside. Between these two flies science recognized no kinship, but the Smithsonian Institution's Raymond C. Shannon guessed better. He went to southwestern Argentina, climbed high, searched long. He found a fly. Back to the Smithsonian in Washington he hastened. There Entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend examined the Shannon fly, pronounced it the missing link between botfly and parasitic fly, a hitherto...
Collecting human heads in Brazil has its little amenities and points of courtesy, Matthew Williams Stirling, Smithsonian ethnologist, told Washington's Anthropological Society last week. He spent eight weeks with the head-hunting Jivaros, "a simple, rather kindly people," who notify their enemies of intended raids. The "victims" at once dig pitfalls and set trap guns along forest paths, post watchdogs around their tribal house, hide indoors with their women and children until the attack begins...
...Catherine twelve miles to the south. St. Catherine is the higher. It is the highest (8,540 ft.) peak, the point nearest the Sun in the rocky Sinai Peninsula. For that reason-and because the atmosphere thereabouts is almost dustless, almost hazeless-rather than for holy associations, the Smithsonian Institution decided that the top of St. Catherine was the best accessible place in the entire Eastern Hemisphere for a solar observatory. Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot last week announced that building will start at once...
...site for a solar observatory must be high, dry and dustless. Best place found on earth is Mt. Montezuma, Chile. Excellent is Table Mountain, Calif. The Smithsonian's Washington station where Dr. Abbot works is hazy, merely geographically convenient. Until last year the Institution maintained an observatory on Mt. Brukkaros in southwest Africa. Dusty desert winds made that place untenable...
...Smithsonian Institution Dr. Florence E. Meier fired ultraviolet light waves of various lengths at green, one-celled plants called algae. The algae succumbed to waves which were almost as short as x-rays...