"Why, of course everything anybody can learn by investigating the ocean and the organisms that live in it will be useful to somebody in some way at some time." So said the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, journalist and humanitarian, before founding the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California. Last week came news of a characteristic undertaking of this institution. It stood sponsor for a whaling expedition off the San Clemente Islands.
The crew of the whaler Lansing were killing whales at an average rate of...
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