Word: starfishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the horsy set could nicker approbation of many a hunting and racing scene. But "The Horse in Art's" 1,000-odd items also went further afield, from archaic Greek vases to a surrealist canvas of a horse's head, surrounded by lilies and starfish. Best part of the show was its sculpture, which ranged from prancing pottery chargers of the Chinese T'ang Dynasty through the Renaissance bronzes of Giovanni da Bologna to contemporary U. S. Ceramist Waylande de Santis Gregory...
...teeming variety of life and the consistency of its patterns of struggle; in the stomach of a sea bird he finds a half-digested fish, with a smaller fish in its stomach, while mud from the bottom of the sea turns out to be writhing with worms, crabs, starfish, urchins, snails, serpent-stars and heretofore unknown species. Not his best book, Zaca Venture presents the most crowded world so far, since it touches on everything from a 42-foot whale shark (the largest true fish known) to a minute feather-fly which lays its eggs and travels in comfort...
Greatest bane of Atlantic seaboard oystermen is not the four months without R but the family of Asteroidea-starfish. When a starfish wants an oyster, it wraps its arms around an oyster's shell and pulls. The oyster resists, but its shell-closing muscle eventually tires and its shell gapes. The starfish then intrudes its stomach into the opening, absorbs the oyster. To reduce the numbers of starfish preying on their beds, oystermen frequently drag frayed ropes over the sea bottom. The spiny skins of the starfish become entangled in the ropes and they are hauled to the surface...
Last week a more scientific way of dealing with starfish was reported by Science Service from the U. S. Fisheries Biological Laboratory at Milford, Conn. The method, successfully tested in Long Island Sound, is to drop a barrage of quicklime through the water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...
...which he collects as a companion hobby to his other hobby of historical, mathematical and astronomical instruments. Dr. Clarence N. Flickman, who researches for Bell Telephone Laboratories as he used to do for American Piano Co., shot arrows from a bow. Austin Hobart Clark, 52, regularly looks after the starfish and sea urchins in the U. S. National Museum and the press service of the A. A. A. S. Last week he appeared with his beloved butterflies to help the other four entertain their fellow scientists...