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Leonardo da Vinci seems first to have noticed that widths of tree rings vary in wet and dry years, but there is a big gap between his discovery and a history of tree rings that chronicles Midwest weather as far back as 1300 A.D.-a study released this week by Anthropologist Florence May Hawley of the University of Chicago...
...interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian pueblo, date it exactly as far back as 11 A.D. Sequoia wood from the High Sierra can now be dated back to 1305 B.C. Since the weather, and therefore tree growth, varies from place to place, master tree-ring charts must be worked out for different districts of the U.S. Florence Hawley's district is the biggest yet mapped: the Mississippi Valley south of Wisconsin...
Fruit of the Tree...
Well, who said they ate an apple? Surely not the Bible. The Bible simply says it was "fruit of the tree." So the wizards at the flower show can guess again if they like, for nobody who knows the Bible will gainsay them...
...shows how each tangled acre of jungle can be dissected into hundreds of distinct "niches," which vary-from treetop to root, from tree to tree-in temperature, humidity, vegetation, sunlight. Every niche has its animals, every animal its niche. Thus, for example, "If you know the distribution of either the forest, the malaria, or the mosquito alone, you will be able to predict the range and incidence of the other two. In fact, this applies . . . to any animals, plants, diseases, and so forth...