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...orchids, a hybrid whose glazed hairy petals crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties...
...questioned Mrs. Dodge's choice of Warland Protector last week. Most fanciers consider him utterly faultless, the finest specimen yet produced of his comparatively young breed...
Among the eight tons of findings which W. E. Schevill '27, assistant curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has brought back with him from Australia, there has been discovered the largest and most nearly perfect specimen of a plesiosaur ever found in Australia. It is about two-thirds complete, and so makes possible for the first time an accurate reconstruction of the giant marine reptile of 120,000,000 years...
...author's prose does not much improve it. If this book is in reality an early experiment of Mr. Stuart, on e can only let it go at that, with the wish that it had not been published. But if it is not, if it really is a legitimate specimen of the contemporary Anglo Irish novel, then one can only regret it as a symptom of the distortion of a singularly original tradition of style, for a long time one of the most distinguished in English, and now apparently reduced to a formula and a trick...
...Haeseler '23, director of the Film Foundation, was faced yesterday afternoon with the problem of making a baby boa-constrictor constrict. An order from the Biology Department had come in for a film of a boa-constrictor eating his dinner; a sleck, five-foot specimen was accordingly secured, but it refused to perform even in the face of alternate starvation in solitude and mice before the camera...