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Among other new Harvard contributors are F.A. McClure, consultant on Tropical Forestry for the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation, writing on bamboo: and Ruth Dixon Turner, research associate in Malacology, dealing with the piddock, periwinkle, quahog, teredo, and whelk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUSEY WILL WRITE | 3/13/1961 | See Source »

...seashore with more than a specialist's curiosity. She evokes that sense of private peace and mystical wonder that Anne Lindbergh brought to her Gift from the Sea. She explores and celebrates a world of ferment and vitality, from the humble mole crab to the dog-whelk snail, from submarine forests to rock pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marine Demimonde | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Alexander Mackendrick's High and Dry is very possibly the funniest Baling comedy to date, a picture as salty and Scottish as a whelk in the Firth of Forth. A sort of sister picture to his Tight Little Island, this one might be called a tragedy of plumbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...seems strange that a radical much form a background for normal a dents with the old-fashioned idea of bell close to nature, it is not strange to Dartmouth, where the usual would be out of place. Old President Whelk's motto still holds: "The voice of one crying the wilderness." And so far, no one offered to make that a chorus...

Author: By Laurence D.savadove, | Title: Dartmouth--A Quiet Spark in the Frozen North | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

...beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters too cold for spawning. The British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugees from the Whelk Tingle | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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