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- In commenting on shortage of
roughage he stated that if he cut
down roughage of a cow to less than 4 lbs [pounds]
per day butterfat content of milk
fell from 3% down to 2% or in
that order. This seems to result from
shortage of acetic acid resulting from
reduced bacterial activity.
July 16, 1958. London.
Ensconced in the University Hall
residence, quite comfortable + not too
noisy.
Picked up mail + CPA ticket, bought
a pair of shoes for Joyce [Cowan] - Poured
rain all day.
The I.C.Z. [International Congress of Zoology] sessions got off
to a good start. Sir Julian Huxley
gave the opening address - "The Ascent
of Darwinism". The majority of it
was a fairly ordinary account of the
history of Darwinian evolutionary
ideas but I was interested in his
suggestion that there had been 3
phases in evolution The chemical
the biological, and the psychosocial
He feels that man, in crossing
the barrier with the last phase to
wherein advance is recorded in changes in
culture rather than form, + operates only [illegible word crossed out]
within human culture. Wherein advance
is not propelled from behind + proceeds
blindly, now is pulled from ahead
+ is a good selecting process that depends
for its speed of advance on the spread
to many of the ideal of goal.
He feels that when man entered this
phase he became the master of evolution
+ shut the door on any further crossings
Met [Fritz] Bodenheimer, [R.L.] Usinger, [Frank A.] Pitelka,
Eugene Munro, Ken Fiskes, Barbara Blanchard,
[R.C.] Stebbins, Walter P. Taylor, Bohn from France
I.C.J. Galbraith, curator of Molluscs at B.M. [British Museum]
[W.] Maher (USC); Carlton Herman, Bill Stadin,
Heard an interesting paper by a Pole
on the influence of altered cage size
on the reproductive behaviour of
a mouse colony. The authors name
K. Petrusewicz
Assistant Curator of Mollusca, B.M. [British Museum]
is S.P. Dance
I.C.J. Galbraith, Curator. main interest Cephalopods
but seems a bit empty headed.
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