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Three different photographs of a specimen are taken on film sensitive to the ultraviolet end of the light spectrum. These three exposures are made at three different wavelengths which correspond to the fundamental red, yellow, and blue of ordinary light. In the few seconds after exposure the instrument develops the films, dries them, and projects them through color filters onto a viewing screen...
...Galathea took, in all, about 16,000 specimens ranging from bottom ooze to a young sea elephant, captured on Campbell Island near New Zealand. This specimen has been named Sir Anton after Dr. Bruun. He eats ten pounds of fish a day, lives in the officers' bathroom, and has just recovered from bronchitis...
...much-desired specimen eluded the Galathea. In 1930, while on the research ship Dana, Dr. Bruun caught a larval eel six feet long, which is now at a Copenhagen museum. The larvae of ordinary eels are fragile, transparent things three to four inches long, but when they grow up they reach four feet. Dr. Bruun's larva by analogy should grow up into a monster more than 100 feet long...
Last week Cambridge was putting other experts on the case. Meanwhile, scholars were speculating about the Price find. If Chaucer really did turn out to be the "lewde compilator," scholars would have the first really long specimen of his handwriting. With that key, they could solve many of the mysteries that still exist in Chaucer's texts, might be able to identify other 14th century manuscripts as his. It was even possible that MS. 75 would uncover some more of the tales told more than five centuries ago by those famous old pilgrims to Canterbury...
...Harvard community there is one unusual specimen, Radcliffe. Radcliffe is not a full-fledged relative of Harvard, since the University supplies Radcliffe with courses on a contract basis in return for the payment of tuition fees and other money...