Don’t Quote Me: The Best of 8 Years of the Journal of Irreproducible Results

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DON'T QUOTE ME The best of 8 years of the JOURNAL OF IRREPRODUCIBLE RESULTS

Collected and Edited by ALEXANDER KOHN

Illustrated by ROY BARZILAY

Consolidated Laboratories, Inc. Chicago Heights, 111. USA

Published by CONSOLIDATED LABORATORIES, INC. Chicago Heights, Illinois

Copyright © 1965 by CONSOLIDATED LABORATORIES, INC.

Printed and Bound in The United States of America

INTRODUCTION

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Medicine ................................................ ..............................................

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Sex ..........................................................................................................

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Physiology .............................................................................................

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Science Administration ................... .................................................

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Psychology .......................................................................... .......... .

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Biochemistry

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Monkey Business ............................................... ..............................

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Insects ................................................................................ ...................

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Bacteriology .........................................................................................

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Mathematics — Com puters..............................................................

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Mechanics & Engineering.................................................................

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Nothing Like Science ............................................. .......... ...............

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Odds and Ends ..................................................................................

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Confusing Titles ................................................................................

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Physical Anthropology ...................... ..............................................

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Quips in Science ............................................................ ..................- 54 References

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L. C. Doubleday ROENTGENOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE BLACK EYE J.A.M.A., 179: 27, 1962

"The 'black eye' is a common clinical entity in this day of physical and auto­ motive violence. It is curious that the state of affairs, requiring, in the minds of the public, nothing more than a liberal application of raw beefsteak and the ex­ pression of sympathy. In contradistinction a blow causing the nose to be swollen and misshapen is considered a matter of some solemnity and worthy of the service of a physician."

W. Meyers, K. L. Burdon and M. N. Riley ANTIGENIC STUDIES ON HUMAN PLASMINOGEN Experientia 1958, 14, 280 "This communication presents evidence for the inhibition of the proteolytic activity of streptokinase activated human plasmino­ gen by rabbit antiserum prepared against purified human plasmin­ ogen and for the antigenic heterogeneity of the plasminogen preparation."

Rachel Stein-Werblowsky A TUMOR INHIBITORY FACTOR IN THE POST-COITAL UTERINE FLUID Nature, 1963, 199, 570.

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M. H. Merrill and M. Mills SURVEY OF MEDICAL CARE IN A WAR INDUSTRY AREA J.A.M.A. 1944, 126, 892 "During June a 24-hour service was initiated, seven days a week with 2 physicians and two nurses, one physician sleeping in the center." ih h h h h h h h h h *

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"The expression Infectious Disease means primarily any disease included in regulations under subsection 1 of Section 29 whether absolutely or by definition of a particular stage of such disease but in any Section of Part IV of this act from the applica­ tion from which a disease or stage of a disease is excluded under subsection 2 of said section 29, the expression
HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

Lancet Aug. 17, p. 340, 1963 "The death of Dr. A. P. Meijklejohn who helped in the prepara­ tion of the first edition, must have added greatly to the work of the two authors..." ----------- aaaaaaa-----------

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H. Tabor, H. Rabat and S. M. Rosenthal THE CHEMOTHERAPY OF BURNS A N D SHOCK.VI. STANDARDIZED HEMORRHAGE IN THE MOUSE. VII. THERAPY OF EXPERIMENTAL HEMORRHAGE. Public Health Repts.

59, 639,

1944.

"The majority of mice died at the completion of, or shortly after a fatal hemorrhage."

-----------unnn--------A. K. Swersie SUGGESTIONS ON ADULT CIRCUMCISION New York State J. Med.,

50, 1108,

1950.

"...the patient is ad­ monished to confine the function of the operated appendage to micturation only for 2 weeks after operation. After that period, if he is so dis­ posed, he may without pain, expand its field of usefulness."

-0000D. M. McClure PER AR DUA AD ARDUA The Lancet, Dec. 24, 1390,

1960.

"...one of the principal causes of the current deluge of medical and allied scientific literature is the fact that when a bio­ logical investigator reaches the point of being unable to see the wood for the trees, he is all too ready to resolve his diffi­ culties by embarking on the study of individual leaves.”

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A. J. Schwartz, P. A. Boyer, L. W. Zirbel, and C. J. York EXPERIMENTAL VACCINATION AGAINST MEASLES. 1. TESTS OF LIVE MEASLES AND DISTEMPER VACCINE IN MONKEYS AND TWO HUMAN VOLUNTEERS UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS. J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 173: 861-867, 1960. (The two human volunteers mentioned in this title and described in the paper happen to be two orphans of 2-1/2 and 4 years of age respectively).

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BOOK REVIEW L. H. Strong THE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE PELVIS (By C.F.V. Smout) Anatomical Record 87, 307, 1943. "The assembling of the fundamentals of the anatomy and the physiology of the female pelvis ...will be welcomed by all ipedical students." "That this was done under the stress of the war will make this...all the more appreciated." _*

War Dept. Circular 205 (1944) "Venereal diseases proved innocently con­ tracted by a member of the Army from his or her spouse will be re­ garded as incurred in line of duty."

-----&&&----J. R. Parrat and G. B. West 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE AND TISSUE MAST CELLS J. Physiol. 137, 169-179, 1957. "We have not established the function of 5-HT in the skin of the rat. It appears to be related to the reaction of the ani­ mal to stress, since increases in its concentration occur under physiological condition involving a fresh environment (weaning), or an increase use of tissue (tongue of the female)." *************** 5

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J. B. Hamilton DEMONSTRATED ABILITY OF PENILE ERECTION IN CASTRATE MEN WITH MARKEDLY LOW TITERS OF URINARY ANDROGENS. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med., 54, 311, 1943.

"The sexual interest shown by this patient "(castrated 13 years previously)" appeared to be considerable according to the history obtained from the man, his wife, and a third party concerned."

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B. Smith and C. V. Fasano THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF BAGGY EYELIDS Bull. N.Y. Acad. Sci. , 1962, 38, 163-167 "Concluding, we would like to emphasize that if Baggy Eyelids are properly diagnosed and adequately treated, the patient is pleased and happy because he looks better; the surgeon has a sense of artistic accomplishment." /////-------- /////---------///// N. S. Kline YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE Indian J. Psychiatry 1959, _1, 18-25 "...a researcher is a paranoid, noisy, obsessive, compulsive long-shot gambler who simply doesn't know when to leave well enough alone." /////---- /////-----///// TESTICULAR PAIN J.A.M.A. 1958, Dec. 6 p. 1956 Answering a letter enquiring whether a patient should be castrated because of testicular pain, the consultant concludes: "...this leads this consultant to the conclusion that the remarkable organs which nature has provided should re­ main undisturbed."

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G .W. Dick "POLIOMYELITIS Lectures on Scientific Basis of Medicine, Univ. London, Athlone Press 1959, vol. 7, p. 429 "it is obvious that one site of exit is the lower end of the alimentary tract.” •k'k'k'k'k'k5 'k'k'k'k'k'k

F. L. Lederer NASAL SINUSITIS IN RELATION TO BRONCHIECTASIS Diseases of Chest, 9:50, 1943. "The observation of Clerf and Gooddale of the frequent presence of sinus infection in association with bilateral bronchiectasis, in contradistinction to its frequent occurrence with unilateral dilatation, is highly confirmatory of an etiologic relationship between the sinusitis and the bronchial disease if doubt has heretofore existed of such a relationship."

Lord Rotschild UNORTHODOX METHODS OF SPERM TRANSFER Scientific American Nov. 1956 (195/5) p. 121

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D. G. Millard and T. H. Lee THE TWIST FRACTURE DISLOCATION OF THE PATELLA New England J. Med., 1962, 262, 246 Motto:

"The female knee is a joint and not an entertainment." (P. Hammond 1873-1936).

"The twist....has been described as a sex-suggestive ritual in form of an energetic torso-contorting dance and has been blamed as a menace to health and morals. This report concerns only the former implication." "...It is difficult to ascertain whether this complicated ener­ getic exercise of the body will be detrimental to the health and morals of youth; only experience can tell, but as A. Lincoln said: "Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed."" •k-k-k-k-k-k-k

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Editorial Lancet, 1 July 1962

"The differences be­ tween male and female in man (as in most species) however con­ spicuous or however important in practice, are not really profound."

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H. Osmond and A. Hoffer A SMALL RESEARCH IN SCHIZOPHRENIA Canadian Med. Assoc. J . , 1959, 80, 91 "...Smythies observed that mescalin looked familiar and after consulting Dr. J. Redmill (then a medical student, who had been a biochemist) we learnt that it resembled, among other things, adrenaline. This observation we learnt later was unoriginal, but when combined with a second observation that there was a re­ semblance between the mescalin experience and that of some schizophrenics, we had the makings of a hypothesis which could be used and tested. To get beyond the gateway, hard work, money, much luck and a long period of time would be needed. We had no money, but we had luck."

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A. M. Lilienfeld and S. Graham VALIDITY OF DETERMINING CIRCUMCISION STATUS BY QUESTIONNAIRE AS RELATED TO EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CANCER OF THE CERVIX. J. Natl. Cancer Inst.

1958,

21, 713-720

Summary: "Comparison of patients’ statement with examination findings concerning circumcision of a series of 213 male patients admitted to the Roswell Park Memorial Institute indicated disagreement between exa m ­ ination and statement in Zk.k% of the patients ......... Characteristics of patients who stated they were not circumcised, whe n the physician determined they were (Continued...)

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circumcised, were not significantly different from those who reported circumcision when the examiner recorded the reverse. However, the first-mentioned group was consistently different to a slight extent from the other in characteristics suggesting less familiarity with the English language.... Further study regarding the relationship of circumcision to cervical cancer should be based on physical examination findings with adequate definition of degree of length of prepuce." From discussion: "In the study of Wynder et al. (1) circumcision status of the husband was determined by questioning the wife. As we indicated earlier, it is likely that a woman's statement concerning circumcision would probably be in greater error than that of her husband. One cannot dismiss the possibility that women might report circumcision status more accurately than the men themselves since they may obtain a more accurate conception of the nature of circumcision through a closer acquaintance with the operation during the neonatal period in their male children. However, it would be difficult to posit a greater degree of reliability on woman's statements than those of their husbands without more evidence on the subject." *___ ____________ * S. L. Salzstein PULMONARY MALIGNANT LYMPHOMAS A ND PSEUDOLYMPHOMAS:

CLASSIFICATION, THERAPY AND PROGNOSIS. Cancer, 1963, 1_6, 928. "Case 69, last known to be dying of lymphoma 1§ years after biopsy, is considered for purposes of discussion to be dead."

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D. S. Miller FRACTURES AMONG CHILDREN. AGENT

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PARENTAL ASSAULT AS A CAUSATIVE

Minnesota Medicine 1959, 42, 1209-1212 "Extensive laboratory studies are usually naive and wasteful in cases of multiple bone fractures (and bruising, hemorrhages, ecchymoses) in children where an attempt is made to find such underlying causes as scurvy, rickets, leukemia, etc., when it should be plain to an alert examiner that this is deliberate or careless trauma inflicted on children by delinquent adults." -k-k-k

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J. E. Smith 59TH MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS "...in the past a doctor used to come to hospital to see a variety of patients; now patients come to a hospital to see a variety of doctors." ■*•**

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CECIL TEXTBOOK OF MEDICINE 5th Ed. page 1031

"...in a series of patients studied post-mortem more than 90 percent complained of shortness of breath."

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J. J. Doheny, Science, 123, 542, 1956. "The sex of the newborn infant has been established on the basis of external physical examination." *___________ * P. G. Preston Some Notes on the Management of the Subfertile Marriage East African Med. Journal, 34, 203, 1957 ..."I have searched the dictionaries in the library of Medical Research Laboratory and can find no mention of "sub-fertile" or "sub-fertility," neither can I find any in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, but if we examine the words "sub” - which is defined as Latin preposition meaning "under", and "fertile" which is defined as "bearing abundantly", it would appear that "subfertile" means "under-bearing abundantly" or in plain English, "not very fruitful". "Infertile" is defined as "not fertile". According to these definitions it would appear, therefore, in these modern days of contraceptive measures amongst most Europeans that they are voluntarily "sub-fertile". (From a description of a case in a woman who ovulated only once a year): "It so happened that when the ovulation occurred she was living in the north and her husband was in London on business so she wired him to return hone immediately with the result that she produced a child. Eventually by the same process she pro­ duced a second child." ------------

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Katiyar, K. N. A crazy instinct of copulation in males with dead females and vice versa among short horned grasshoppers (Arididae) Ztsch f. Angew. Entomologie, 49, 399, 1962.

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G. Bermant RESPONSE LATENCIES OF FEMALE RATS DURING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE Science, 133; 1771, 1961. Abstract: A female rat by operating a lever causes the pre­ sentation of a potent male rat and subsequent sexual contact. From text: "The experiment reported here measures the effects of single copulations on the behavior of estrus female rats, in the context of an ongoing series of copulations. In order to investigate the behavioral effects of single copulations of the female, it is necessary to provide a method by which she can control the timing of the copulations. One such method was to make each copulation contingent upon some measurable arbitrary response by the female. This was done by conditioning the fe­ males to press a lever in a box whereupon a male was placed in the box by the experimenter. The time required to train the females ranged from 15 - 90 minutes. Results: It was found that after copulation and ejaculation the female rats would press the lever within 20 seconds for at least 5 consecutive copulations."

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W. E. Gibbs and H. C. Browning (Dental Branch, University of Texas) EPITHELIAL CHANGES IN VAGINAL ISOGRAFTS IN MALE MICE Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med., 104, 631, 1960. "The virtual absence of growth of vaginal grafts in intact males with ovarian transplants without estrogen administration, together with their histological structure, in comparison to that in intact or castrated males without ovaries illustrate the antagonism between estrogenic and androgenic action of vaginal mucosa previously described." **************** A. Montagu NATURAL SELECTION AND THE FORM OF BREAST IN HUMAN FEMALE J.A.M.A., 180, 826-827; 1962. A factor that may have correlatedly assisted in the development of the female breast is the fact that in most nonliterate socie­ ties, and especially in areas in which the nights are cold, fat women would tend to be preferred to thin ones. Love in a cold climate is considerably assisted by central heating. Eskimos, for example, always prefer fat women to thin ones. The fore­ runners of central heating in prehistoric times were fat ladies. Fat ladies would have large breasts, and the premium placed on fatness itself would in this way have further contributed to the development of the breast.

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Maddrell, S. H. P. CONTROL OF INFECTION IN RHODNIUS PROLIXUS Nature 198, 210, 1963 "The process of ingestion is normally terminated by nervous information as to the size of the abdomen."

D. Lewis THE FATE OF NITROGENOUS COMPOUNDS IN THE RUMEN Digestive Physiology and Nutrition of the Ruminant, Butterworth 1961, London, p. 135. Table 5 bears the following caption: "Acid-base balance following the administration of a lethal dose of ammonium chloride. A dose of 1 mole was administered as a 2M solution: the sheep survived."

P. Jaeger PHYSIOLOGY OF MOLLUSCA - IV. ACTION OF SEROTONIN ON THE PENIS RETRACTOR MUSCLE OF STROPHOCHEILOS OBLONGUS Comp. Biochem. Physiol.

8, 131, 1963.

"RESULTS: Fresh and relaxed penis retractor muscles react to 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), tryptamine and certain other amines by an increase in tonus accompanied by rhythmic contractions that last for long periods of time. When the drugs are washed off, relaxation immediately follows and the rhythmical contractions cease. Responsiveness is then restored. The action on this muscle as on the Venus heart is excitatory, long lasting and irreversible."

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P H Y S I O L O G Y E. H. Hess and J. M. Polt PUPIL SIZE AS RELATED TO INTEREST VALUE OF VISUAL STIMULI Science 1 3 2 ; 249, 1960. Using a technique for recording the pupil size while the subjects (men or women) were shown visual material of differ­ ent kinds (films wit h pictures of landscapes, babies, mother and child, partially nude men, partially nude women), the authors found that: "men are more interested In partially nude women, while women are more interested in partially nude men."

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S. M. Chernish, M. Gruber and K. G. Kohlstadt OBTAINING DATA BY TELEPHONE (A CLINICAL EVALUATION OF HYPNOTIC DRUGS) Proc. Soc. Exp. Bio. & Med.,

93; 162, 1956.

"...Analysis of the data on the duration of sleep indicates significant heterogeneity among the hypnotics but placebo was not significantly different from overall hypnotic effect. This was an unexpected effect w h ich on clinical basis was illogical. Therefore, any comparison of the duration of sleep was not con­ sidered valid."

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"...In an operant-conditioning study which was prematurely terminated because of circumstances beyond our control..."

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P H Y S I O L O G Y Perfectly Clear E. Roberts THE SYNAPSE AS A CYBERNETIC UNIT:

A BIOCHEMIST PHANTASY

Neuroscience Research Program, Discussion paper 64-3,

p.42

"By this mechanism there is achieved a temporary differentiation of synapses on a particular postsynaptic neuronal element, there being an increased probability of subsequent activation over that existing before the postsynaptic depolarization for those synap­ ses in which the postsynaptic activity had been preceded by presynaptic activity or coincided with it, and a decreased probability for those synapses in which presynaptic activity had not occurred." )Release of feedback chemical transmitter such as gamma aminobutyric acid

A. D. Cavilli and J. R. Henderson ESTIMATION OF VENTILLATORY FUNCTION BY BLOWING OUT A MATCH Amer. Rev. Resp. Dis.,

1964, 89;680

"(2) This paper represents the personal viewpoints of the authors and should not be construed as a statement of official Air Force policy. Acknowledgement:

Staff Sergeant Sallustro and A/1C M. Penland rendered excellent technical assistance." (lighting the matches? ..Editors)

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SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION R. N. Anthony BUDGETS IN LABORATORIES - MANAGEMENT CONTROL IN INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS Harvard University,

1952,

p. 144.

"A cost accountant is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punchings, an infinite series of incomprehensible answers, calculated with micrometric precision from vague assumptions, based on d e ­ batable figures taken from inconclusive documents, and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious re­ liability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoy­ ing and confounding a hopelessly defenseless operating organization."

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Units of Biological Structure and Function, Academic Press, 1956

"In common language, we may describe the nucleus as the TRATOR OF THE CELL. It shares two attributes with more administrators: it tends to perpetuate its kind and it successfully our efforts to learn what it is doing that trying to get along without it can we satisfy ourselves working at all."

ADM I N I S ­ familiar defies so only by that it is

********* B. 0. Koopman FALLACIES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH Operations Research 1956, 4:422-426 "Authoritis is that regression to logical infantilism which believes that missing links in one's solution of a problem, as well as the missing common sense required for relating it to reality, can be readily supplied by the..company executive who must eventually use the results." "Mechanitis is the occupational disease of the one who is so im­ pressed with modern computing machinery that he believes that a mathematical problem, which he can neither solve nor formulate, can readily be answered, once he has access to a sufficiently e x ­ pensive machine."

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Marion Sonneberg GIRLS JUMPING ROPE Psychoanalysis, 1955, 3, 57-62

"In this play the child rehearses the part he wishes or she wishes to assume in adult life. The girl jumping rope acts out the to-andfrom movement of the man during sex intercourse. Her own body takes the part of the active man, while the swinging rope imitiates her own body adjusting to the move­ ment of man’s. In this game, girl acts both the role of man and of the woman. Thus the girls go through unconscious preparation for their future sexual function as women/'

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R. C. Ziller, R. D. Behringer and J. D. Goodchilds THE MINORITY NEWCOMER IN OPEN AND CLOSED GROUPS Office of Naval Research, Contract No. 2285 (02)

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"This would also suggest that the newcomer as astimulus or press in Murray terms is more likely to be perceived byopen groups as compared with closed groups as a potential group resource with reference to group productivity rather than a restrictive and/or disruptive supernumerary with reference to existing patterns of social cathexis and interdependent task functions. Or perhaps more simply, the newcomer enters a far more complex, interrelated system of elements in the closed groups than in the open groups, and assimilation is accordingly accomplished with reduced facility and increased hostility at least during the initial phase of the assimilation process."

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N. S. Kline YOU CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE Indian J. Psychiatry, 1:118-125, 1959 "Perhaps someone should set up a foundation for the support of Improbable and Fantastic ideas since these are frequently the area in which new and important advances are to be made. One qualification for grants-in-aid to such an Institute might be that they have been rejected by at least two of the more re­ spectable fund-giving sources." *___ _*

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E. A. Hooton WHY MEN BEHAVE LIKE APES AND VICE VERSA Princeton University, Press, 1940.

"The average cranial capacity of adult Europeans is 1450 cc. Probably about 900cc of brain mass is enough to provide optimum human be­ havior. The rest of it is devoted to mis­ behavior. "

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Schreier, I. H.

Legget, R. F. , and Northwood, T.D. J. Accoustical Society America, Jan. 1960 "One of the occupational hazards of scientific and engineering work in North America is associated with the necessity of attend­ ing the meetings and conferences of professional societies." *____________ * Banghart, Bachrach and Patishall STUDIES IN PROBLEM SOLVING Office of Naval Res., Contract No. 474(8) Sept. 1959 "... In other words, for this particular task, intelligence did not seem to interfere with problem solving performance."

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Cartwright, French and Sampson AN EXPERIMENT ON ACTIVE A N D PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO SOCIAL POWER Office of Naval Research, Task Order 1224 (11) Aug.

1959

"As our interest lies in resistance, which we have conceptu­ alized as a force whose source lies in the same act of the agent that sets up the induction force but whose direction is oppo­ site to the induction force, we note a ready coordination between the concepts of driving force, restraining force and resistance. We wish to coordinate resistance to both a driving force and a restraining force. As a restraining force, resistance would have a direction opposite to the induced force, but would serve to reduce the locomotion in the direction of the induction rather than resulting in locomotion in the opposite direction. On the other hand with resistance as a driving force, we would expect a force whose direction is opposite to the induced force and one whose strength could exceed the strength of the induced force and thus result in locomotion in a direction opposite to the induced direction. In other w o r d s .... " a.s.o.

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W. Smith EFFECT OF AGE AND CROWDING ON FEATHER PULLING Psychological Reports, 1959, 5, 264. "Among young domestic chickens feather pulling is a prominent activity. As a part of a general program of research on social behavior in chicks some data were obtained on the fre­ quency of feather pulling as a function of age and the amount of space available to the Ss*. It is concluded that feather pulling is inversely related to the age of the Ss. During the first 4 weeks of life, feather pulling is not related to crowd­ ing unless Ss have less than \ sq. ft. of living space."

*)Ss in psychological jargon means subjects of experiment

QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO CHILD DEVELOPMENT Lancet, 1958, Oct. 18, p. 848 "1)

The amount of noise (decibel) made by a child is inversely proportional to the strength of stimulus applied.

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Amount of force (ergs) required to remove a child from the room is directly proportional to degree of secrecy of the topics under discussion.

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The half life of birthday present is inversely related to its cost."

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C. Wells and B. M. Maxwell ALKAPTONURIA IN AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY Brit. J. Radiol., 35, 679, 1962. "This mummy (of an unknown woman) had the advantage of already being well known because it had been described in 1929 by Dawson".

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G. D. Kalyankar and E. E. Snell * PYRIDOXAL CATALYSED DECARBOXYLATION OF AMINO ACIDS. Biochemistry 1:594, 1962. *) "These observations were completed approximately 5 years ago and are published now despite their incomplete nature since it is unlikely that the study will be extended further".

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MONKEY BUSINESS

Editorial MONKEY BUSINESS AT HARVARD New England J. Med. 1962, 267, 307

"Since primateship refers to the "office, dignity, or position of a primate" It may be that Harvard and her sister institutions have in mind instituting a school for office seekers and they might do worse with the material they expect to have in hand. A primate, according to Webster's lexicon is "one who is first in rank, quality, authority or the like..." with these defini­ tions in mind the Harvard Medical School is in the process of developing NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER. ..."Man, having been recently and perhaps finally classified as the missing link between the anthropoid ape and the human being, and monkeys less scientifically defined as the "funniest people" and vice versa, the conclusion that thereby hangs a tail seems justif ied."

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Annual Report of Botanical Gardens Dept. Singapore, 1961

"Long tailed macaque monkeys (Macaca irus) plague the lives of the staff of the Botanical Gardens in Singapore. Last year none were caught in traps and only 4 were shot. Shotting is regarded as being of little avail, however, as a single shot will scat­ ter all the monkeys tree-top wise to safety, where they pour vituperation on the helpless garden’s staff. The fact that the office shotgun was found to have bent barrels did little to improve matters." • k 'k 'k

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R. Byck and E. Hearst ADJUSTMENT OF MONKEYS TO FIVE CONTINUOUS DAYS OF WORK Science 1962, 138, 43.

SUCCULENT BIVALVE New England J. Med., 1963, 268, 216 "Man, it has been said, with his superior intelligence has in­ creased the market supply of scallop mussels (scallops-Vola Jacobaea) by machine punching them out of shark meat, thus muscling in on an otherwise reasonably lucrative, if arduous industry." 11

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N. E. Gary QUEEN HONEY BEE ATTRACTIVENESS AS RELATED TO MANDIBULAR GLAND SECRETION Science 1961,

133, 1479 TABLE 1

Attraction of worker bees as function of mandibular gland secretion Queens in class

Class of Queens Laying queens with glands Laying queens without glands Aged virgins with glands Aged virgins without glands Newly emerged virgins with glands

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1 8 3 , 479

(Observation of two males copulating simultaneously with one female "while a third male may be attempt­ ing to do the same” ) "Both insertions "(of stylets and phalli)" are maintained by the males through considerable disturbance with a camel hair brush, as is the case in pair matings. It is very likely, on the basis of this observation, that both copulations are genuine and both mating acts are complete."

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L. Ehrtnan A GENETIC CONSTITUTION FRUSTRATING THE SEXUAL DRIVE OF DROSOPHILA PAULISTRORUM Science, 1960, 131, 1381

ABSTRACT:

"Hybrids obtained in the laboratory between two subspecies of Drosophila paulistrorum possess a genetic constitution which is discordant enough so that the hybrid females repel the courtship of all males, and will mate with none. The hybrid males will court and will be rejected by almost all females including their own hybrid siblings." While normal copulation within this species takes an average of 17 minutes and 12 seconds, in cases involving the hybrid males: "it took the female 2 minutes to repel the male by shaking violently from side to side and in the second instance only one minute and 47 seconds."

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J. D. Gillet INDUCED OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT IN DECAPITATED MOSQUITOES BY TRANS­ FUSION OF HEMOLYMPH. J. Exp. Biol.. 1958, 35, 685 "Mosquitoes were chilled for 100 seconds..and decapitated, the wound being sealed with paraffin wax. About one-fourth of all donors and recipients (of hemolymph) failed to survive treat­ ment. It was felt that mosquitoes are not sufficiently robust to withstand such treatment."

M. M. Jenkins BIPOLAR PLANARIANS IN A STOCK CULTURE Science 1963, 142, 1187 SUMMARY: "...it is suggested that the axial gradient was effectively flattened by a normal head-inhibiting factor being unable to diffuse to the posterior end."

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Letter of A. van Leeuwenhoek to the Royal Society, July 11, 1687 Collected Letters, Vol. VI, Amsterdam 1961. "..on the 10th September I placed the Silkworm eggs that were laid six weeks earlier, in a small, flat box and I carried that in my pocket during the day, and took it to bed with me at night, so as to keep them warm all the time. And in another similar box I put eggs that were three weeks old. These eggs

my wife (who clothes herself very warmly) carried in her bosom night and day, for this purpose, that I might watch the Silkworm grow from time to time in the autumn."

New Yorker, June 20, 1959. "Is it possible for a doctor to determine the sex of an unborn child by listening to the fetal hear beat? Answer: No. In any case, anybody's guess is as likely to be right as wrong. About half of all babies are boys or girls."

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S . T . Cowan "ORDNUNG IN DAS CHAOS" MIGULA Canadian J. Microbiol., 1965; 2, 212-219 "...Bacteria are difficult to classify because they have not heard yet of the Bergey Manual .... and while bacteria remain in such blissful ignorance we, in our innocence, will continue to try to put them in pigeonholes, on punchcards, or other de­ vices for their orderly management. With so much regimentation and officialdom, will the bacterium's life be worth living, and will it, at last bow to man's will and remain docile and unchanging long enough to justify the ful­ fillment of man's perpetual wish to stick a label on it?"

J. R. Hudson, E. C. Hulse and J. M. Collins NOTES ON THE FREEZE DRYING OF BRUCELLA ABORTUS S19 VACCINE from A Discussion on the Maintenance of Cultures by Freeze Dry­ ing, Brit. Commonwealth of Nations, Scientific Liaison Office, H.M.S. 1954 "Since October 1952 we dried 13 batches, 11 giving survival better than 90%. Unfortunately we cannot explain this improve­ ment in survival. The technician responsible for preparing the Smith Naylor medium has been changed and so has the re­ frigerating unit in the freeze-drying apparatus; but it is not clear, what, if any, technical differences these changes have introduced." ///

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C. A. Stuart THE UNFORTUNATE ROLE OF PRECEDENT IN BACTERIOLOGY Bacteriol. Reviews 1956, 20, 203-206 "...It is said of Linnaeus that when he found a small plant which did not fit perfectly his system of classification, he ground it to the soil with his heel. The bacteriologist has a better way: he can autoclave his exceptions." 33

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"Various strains of bacteria can fix nitrogen at ordinary tem­ peratures a reaction which may be performed by man only under extreme conditions such as high pressure and high temperature." Chemie fuer Labor u. Betrieb, 1957, 8, 471 *____ * G. Bertani LYSOGENY Advances in Virus Research

1958, 5, 190

"Whereas the rarities of spontaneous prophage loss and of stable double lysogenization at superinfection, compared with the relatively high frequency of prophage substitution at superinfection, make it impossible to assume that lysogenic cells carry a large population of prophage copies segregating at random at cell division, and reproducing pari passu with the cell, model G, which assumes a small number of prophage copies cannot be ruled out on these grounds, because the volume of the nucleolus-like material would be small as compared with the size of the prophage copies, so that when the bacterial chromosome divides, and nucleolus-like material is halved the segregation of the prophage copies is not completely random."

H. Blank ISOTOPIC LABELLING OF VIRUSES Trans. New Yord Acad. Sci. 1956, 18, 246 "As work with radioactive isotopes and animal viruses increases it may be important to caution against allowing the clicking of the scaler to drown out the clicking of cerebral synapses."

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A. S. Fraser SIMULATION OF GENETIC SYSTEMS BY AUTOMATIC DIGITAL COMPUTERS Austral. J. Biol. Sci. , 1960, 1^, 344 Abstract: "Simulation by Monte Carlo methods of the effect of selection against phenotypic extremes has shown that selection can produce a degree of genetic canalization which is more re­ strictive than that indicated by the limits of selection show­ ing that canelization of a rigid degree can be caused by loose selection."

n L. E. Travis OBSERVING HOW HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES TO DISCOVER HOW TO GET COMPUTERS TO DO LIKEWISE. U. S. Govt. Research Rept. 1963, 38, 150. "The designer of intelligent machines can get a lot of ideas about programming the computer by introspecting his own and others' stupidity." ■k-k-k

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D. W. Waugh and E. van der Hoeven FINE STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN ADULT FEMALE BREAST Lab. Investigations 1962, 1_1, 220 "The fine structure of the resting and the pregnant breast in the human female is similar to that described in the virgin, resting and pregnant mammary gland in the mouse, rat and cow."

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S. Warburton, W. Udler, R.M. Ewert and W. S. Haynes OUTBREAK OF FOODBORNE ILLNESS ATTRIBUTED TO TIN Public Health Repts., 1962, 7_7, 798 "Following a banquet in a restaurant 31 of 38 were stricken rather suddenly with a severe gastrointestinal irritation. Vodka punch, contaminated with 2000 mg Sn/liter was delivered to the restaurant in a retinned milk container. Acidity was pH 3. " ***

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T. Nonweiler EFFECT OF A RESISTING COUPLE ON THE ROTATIONAL MOTION OF A RIGID BODY Nature 1906, 187, 311 " ... In this particular problem the role of internal energy dissipation due to non-rigidity may in fact be important, but, setting this aside, the theorem set below appears relevant. The proposition is as follows: An external couple applied for a discrete time to a rigid body about its instantaneous axis of rotation in the sense opposing its rotation tends to cause that axis to approach the axis of greatest moment."

D. Napley (Chairman Exec. Council, British Academy Forensic Science) HAZARDS OF THE ROAD Nature 1962, 195, 1244 "Would the public interest be better served were a statutory obligation placed on bothroad authorities and manufacturers of motor vehicles so that a claim to damage might lie, where an accident could be shown to have occurred due to some feature of the road or the vehicle which, while not such as might fairly be described as a defect in construction of the road or the vehicle, was nevertheless a contributing cause in the ultimate damage or injury which reasonable foresight, applied against the background of the facts and technical knowledge might have avoided?"

New Yorker, June 20, 1959

"The proceeds will be used to purchase Hi-Lo beds for the hospital These beds are constructed so they can be manually raised and lowered to accommodate both patients and nurses."

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Magnus Pyke NOTHING LIKE SCIENCE John Murray, London 1957 (172 pp). "The ultimate joke is the sight of one of us diligent modern researchers analyzing 716 samples of bath brick and writing a report with 1002 references to the literature entitled: "A preliminary communication of the sesquioxides of silicon as determined by X-ray crystallography with special reference to the Jurassic minerals of central Basingstoke", without a glimmer­ ing of any of the general implications behind our immediate occupation."

A. R. Kendall REPAIR OF THE DENUDED PENIS J. Mich. State Med. Soc., 1962, August, p. 975

Weil A. A., W. A. Nosik and N. Demmy ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC CORRELATION OF LAUGHING FITS Am. J. Med. Sci., 1958, 235, 301

C. Pfaffman, W. R. Goff and J. K. Bare AN OLFACTOMETER FOR THE RAT Science 1958, 128, 1007

P. Eder Brit. J. Psychol. 1962, 35, 81 "We are born mad, acquire morality and become stupid and unhappy. Then we die." 38

NOTHING LIKE SCIENCE Editorial How to be interesting though factual Science 1957: 126, 901 "To illustrate the advantage of explanation in terms of purpose let us consider two possible ways of reporting the results of an imaginary inquiry .... First Version:

Ordinarily, determining whether an egg is cooked or raw, without breaking the shell, poses no special problem. But suppose that several hard-boiled eggs*— now cooled— are inadvertently mixed with several raw eggs. How then would you tell them apart? The following method requires no spe­ cial equipment, only the application of a well-known physical principle. Place each egg on its side and attempt to spin it. If it spins easily it is cooked; if not, it is raw. Raw eggs do not spin readily because the rotational energy is dissipated in the egg's interior, as dictated by the hydrodynamics of vis­ cous fluids. To confirm the method, break the eggs." Second Version:

12 white eggs were purchased at a supermarket. The eggs were divided into two groups of equal number. The eggs in the first group were boiled seven minutes aid allowed to cool; the eggs in the second group were kept as controls. The eggs were mixed. Each egg was placed on its side and an attempt was made to spin it, after which the egg was broken. It was easy to spin those eggs that subsequently were found to be cooked, but difficult to spin those eggs that proved to be raw. etc., etc." __■*■******__ Malabia, P. THE EXISTENCE OF ANTIBODIES FOR ALBUMIN IN PSYCHOSIS Med. Esp. 1955, 34, 91.

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J. Huxley MATERIAL OF EARLY CONTRACEPTIVE SHEATHS Brit. Med. J . , 1957, March 9, p. 581 ___ * ___ J. G. Hoffman, N. Metropolis and V. Gardiner DIGITAL COMPUTER STUDIES OF CELL MULTIPLICATION BY MONTE CARLO METHODS J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 1956, 17, 175 ___ * ___ A. Bethe RHYTHMICAL BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OCCURRING IN TRAINS OR WITH PERIODIC MODULATIONS Pflueg. Arch. ges. Physiol., 1953, 246, 485 __ Geminus IT SEEMS TO ME New Scientist 1962, November, 311, 261 "With the narcissism of the small boys who expect to be liked even when their faces are unwashed, some authors prepare their papers for the scientific journals in the belief that truth will always reveal itself from the most disorderly string of words. From here it is only a short step to the conclusion that outstanding truth can surmount great obscurity, and so to the belief that obscurity in a paper is actually a mark of virtue."

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F. A. Soliman and A. Soliman THE GONAD STIMULATING POTENCY OF DATE POLLEN GRAINS Experientia 1958, 14, 92 ___ * ___ M. Bradbury A CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD.. Punch May 9, 1962 p. 684 "A good conference is one where there are enough papers for everyone in the morning and enough bottles for everyone in the evening, and where there has been a sufficient interval between seeing these faces and hearing these jokes again to make the whole thing seem fresh.” "A conference consists of an elite coming naturally together and meeting on equal terms, a course consists of an elite instructing a mob, and a convention consists of a mob meeting on equal terms.. ...at a conference, the participants collaborate; at a convention the audience listens; and at a course, the victims endure." * ___ ,*

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P. Weiss EXPERIENCE AN EXPERIMENT IN BIOLOGY Science 1962136, 468 "We see bewildered youngsters composing research projects like abstract paintings; picking some colorful and fashionable words from recent literature and then reshuffling and recombining them into another conglomerate, yielding a stew of data, both undigested and undigestible. We see narrow specialists lavish­ ing their pet technique on reconfirming in yet another dozen ways what has already been superabundantly established to every­ body's satisfaction." @==================@ 41

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M. Suzuki, Y. Murakami, T. Abe. and J. Kumagai A STUDY OF THE SENSITIVITY OF THE TARGET ORGAN TO FEMALE SEX HORMONES Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1960, ^3, 37. 8888 ---------- 8888

F. E. Ferguson THE HETEROFAUNA OF TISHOMINGO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, WITH COMMENTS ON ITS ZOOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES Copeia

1961, No. 4, 391-395. ..The author describes the collection of reptiles in the vicinity of Tishomingo State Park. He continues...

"The soils of the county are generally of poor quality, perhaps explaining evidence of attempts to diversify industry, since caches of both homebrew and moonshine whiskey were revealed in the course of collecting." -k-k-k

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1961, 175_, 840.

"Chewing gum can be removed from hair by rubbing in soft, melted milk chocolate allowing it to dry and then washing the hair thoroughly. Both the chewing gum and chocolate come away easily and without the risk associated with the use of such substances as carbon tetrachloride."

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Anne McLaren IMMUNOLOGICAL CONTROL OF FERTILITY IN FEMALE MICE Nature 1964, 201, 582 "Unless the auto-antigenic factor from the sperm tail could be isolated in an effective form, immunization against other anti­ gens present in spermatozoa, such as blood group factors might cause trou b l e ...... it would be desirable to avoid the formation of anaphylactically sensitizing antibodies, since one would not want wives to become allergic to their husbands as a result of a procedure designed to limit fertility." ---- aaa----S. J. Singer PHYSICAL CHEMICAL STUDIES ON THE NATURE OF ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 1957, Suppl. 1, Vol. 50, p. 71 "You see, I am in the middle of a dilemna: Physical chemists do not recognize me as a physical chemist and immunologists do not recognize me as an immunologist. But my wife loves me anyway." ---- aaa--- — S. Karlin and J. McGregor A CHARACTERIZATION OF BIRTH AND DEATH PROCESSES Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 1959, 45, 375 "The theorem Itself suggests that there may be a nonprobabilistic proof to the effect that a totally positive semigroup of matrices may be used to define a completely additive measure in the space of continuous functions and the continuous state space analogue of this assertion." *///////////*

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R. N. Klein and G. K. K. Link THE ETIOLOGY OF CROWN GALL Quarterly Review of Biology

1955, 30, 207.

"A change elicited by an affect or effect or by an affectant in the affectee is a passive or active response affect or response effect. If it counters the affect or effect or the affectant which elicits it, it is an active counter-affect or countereffect. If it is an active counter affect or effect, it is a counter active affect or effect, i.e. a reaction in the strict sense of the term as used by pathologists." 'k'k ★★

J. Air Pollution Control Assoc., 1961, 1_1, 100 "...for the past year, in spite of extremely heavy work schedule, Ellis Smauder had been revitalizing the Incinerator Committee." ***

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1962

No. 4., p. 863

"Activities on Saturday, 16 June 1962. This day was devoted to field trips for interested members. These trips, under the direction of hard-working and dedicated groups of Maryland members, were thoroughly enjoyed by all, ex­ cept one of the herpetologists, and we understand he was released from the hospital later with instructions to maintain a safe distance from copperheads in the future." ** ** ** FOREIGN LETTERS J. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1957, Feb. 9, p. 486 "Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy who regulates the supply of bodies for dissection states that while the needs for bodies for dissection are being met, the supply is uneven. Scotland in particular is very short of bodies." 44

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Brit. Med. J.

March 16, p. 743 (1963)

"on March 5, 1963 pickets appeared in front of the White House and called on Mrs. Jackie Kennedy to clothe her horse. They belonged to the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA). The first preposition should be "against", but I gather they can’t change it because of legal registration of the original society. According to the Guardian, SINA has designed bikinis for stallions, petticoats for cows, and knickers for bulldogs. Just think of the dogs in Hyde Park tearing the pants off each other".

Home Office Regulations for License Holders under the Cruelty for Animals Act of 1876. (ELA/8/2/1 dated Oct. 22, 1951). "NOTES ON PLURALITY OF EXPERIMENTS": 2. The word "experiment” in relation to the Act has a special meaning which derives partly from the fact that usage has changed since the Act was passed in 1876. What is legiti­ mately regarded as an experiment in scientific practice may con­ stitute several, or one, or none, under the Act, or vice versa.

p. Causey CRIMES IN SCIENTIFIC EDITING Turtox News 1959, 37, 93 "...Editors are, in my opinion, a low form of life, inferior to the viruses and only slightly above academic deans."

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Chafetz, M. E. CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IN THE FAR AND MIDDLE EAST New England J. Med., 271:297, 1964. Many Christian Lebanese use arak as their drink, and some show behavioral disorders by middle-class American standards, such as wife beating and breaking dishes, but these are not tabooed responses in Lebanon. * _____________________ *

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W. M. Fox A SOCIOSEXUAL BEHAVIORAL ABNORMALITY OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN MAN

IN THE D O G R E S E M B L I N G

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CONFUSING TITLES

T. P. Pichkaya, V. S. Asatiani, A. Ts. Anasashvili, A. K. Ageva, 0. V. Kekelidze, T. D. Kitiya, T. P. BCrdzkhiya, B. G. Junchuliya, T. V. Pruidze and G. V. Tsuleiskiri BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE MOUNTAINOUS CLIMATE A T MODERATE ALTITUDES 5th Intern. Congress Biochemistry, Moscow, Aug. p. 527

1961, Sect 21,

******* V. Spuzic, I. Spuzic, S. Djordjevic, L. Ivkovic, J. Ljalevic and M. Zivkovic LE ROLE DU PAPRIKA DANS L'APPARITION DES MANIFESTATIONS ALLERGIQUES Acta A l l ergologica, 1962,

1_7, 516.

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HO W NOT TO KILL YOUR HUSBAND Lancet 1962, Dec. 8, p. 1204

*** Charles Duff A NEW HANDBOOK ON HANGING "This brilliant manual should be in the hands of every murderer and hangman..." Norman Collins

★★★ Editorial HULA HOOP SYNDROME Brit. Med. J. March 14, 1959,

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CONFUSING TITLES

A. G. Karlson (with technical assistance of Emery van Hook) INTRAVENOUS INJECTION IN GUINEA PIGS VIA VEINS OF THE PENIS Lab. Investigations, 1959, 8, 302

T. B. Horgan CHANNEL CAPACITY OF A REALIZABLE PASSIVE TWO-PORT J. Franklin Inst. 1963, 275, 473 ___ * * * ___ R. Kakihana and G. E. McClearn DEVELOPMENT OF ALCOHOL PREFERENCE IN (BALB/c MICE) Nature 1963, 199, 511 _**_ _**_ _■*-*_ Banegal, T. B. THE FECUNDITY OF WITHCES IN THE FIRTH OF CLYDE J. Marine Biol. Assoc,

of UK, 1963, 43, 401. / ----- / ---- / ----- /

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THE NORMAL HUMAN FEMALE AS A MOSAIC OF X-CHROMOSOME ACTIVITY Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 1962, 48, 9

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INFECTION BY LEPTOSPIRA POMONA CONTRACTED FROM PIGS BY M0UTHTO-MOUTH RESUSCITATION. Med.

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Australia, 1961, 1, 897

*_,__________________ * J. B. Graham et al. HUMAN DOUBLE CROSS OVER Nature 1962, 1_95, 834

G. H. E. Hopkins and Miriam Rothschild AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE ROTHSCHILD COLLECTION OF FLEAS British Museum, London, 1962, 168s. *****

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R . Brown AN ACCIDENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF ARTIFICAL VAGINA Cornell Vet. 1948, 3j3, 309 Jc-k'k'k-k'k'k

H. B. Keller, D. A. Levine, and G. B. Whitham MOTION OF A BORE OVER A SLOPING BEACH J. Fluid Mechanics, 1960, 7_, 302. ■k-k'k'k'k'k'k

M. Fox and E. L. Barret VACUUM CLEANER INJURY OF THE PENIS Brit. Med. J . , 1960, June 25, p. 1942 -kit-k'k'kitit D.

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EFFICIENCIES OF FILTER PAPERS FOR COLLECTING RADON DAUGHTERS Ind. Hyg. Journal., 1960, 2_1, 428. *■*•*■*•*** J. M. Lambert, J. N. Jenning , C. T. Smith, C. Green and J. N. Hutchinson THE MAKING OF THE BROADS. A RECONSIDERATION OF THEIR ORIGIN IN THE LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE Royal Geograph. Soc., London, 1960, 153.

E. G. Boring THE PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Dover Publ. 1963

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E. Effenberger HAZARD TO PASSPORT OFFICIALS A T BORDER AREAS FROM EXHAUST GASES Ztschr. f. Hyg. u. Infektionskr. 1958,

1 4 5 , 403

Kohn, R. R., Rollerson, E. and Edwards, H. SWELLING PROPERTIES OF H U MAN SMOOTH MUSCLES WI T H SPECIAL REFER ENCE TO A G E RELATED VARIATIONS Exp. Cell Research 1961,

2£, 569.

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J. R. Vallentyne CONCERNING LOVE, MICROFOSSILS AND PYRITE SPHERULES Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., 1962, 25, 177

R. W. Scheffer and D. Premack LICKING RATES IN INFANT ALBINO RATS Science 1961, 134, 1980

W. S. Snyder THE ESTIMATION OF A BODY BURDEN OF PU FROM URINANALYSIS DATA 7th Ann. Bioassay & Analytical Chem. Meeting, Argonne National Lab., Oct. 12, 1961.

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C. B. Goodheart A BIOLOGICAL VIEW OF TOPLESSNESS New Scientist, 1964, 23 :558 "The breasts do form an important part of a woman's biological equipment for courtship, and it is a question not so much of morals as of tactics to consider at what stage in the proceed­ ings they are to be deployed to the best advantage." (---- )

R. Fischer PENIS LENGTH AND BODY WEIGHT Proceedings Biol. & Med. Sciences (Duth Royal Acad. Sci.) 1964, 67:103 The utilization of human penis size, for studies in physical anthropology and anatomy, has been facilitated by the historical accumulation of data. Unfortunately, most of the data have been neither collected methodologically nor subjected to sta­ tistical evaluation. There has been no objective basis for anecdotal allegations relating penis length and body height... SUMMARY: Reevaluation of reliably measured data (N=49) indicates a positive correlation between human penis length and body he ight. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This note was prepared during a short stay at the Institute of Human Biology, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. The author greatly acknowledges the hospitality and kind collaboration experienced during his stay at this In­ stitute. We are also indebted to Dr. S. Dinitz for his kind assistance.

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