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to shoot food from the walls of their aquarium having spent the previous weeks training the fish. Herald's interest in public education about science led him to propose a "San
Francisco Bay floating laboratory" on a retired, refurbished
136:, replacing the original host Dr Tom Groody, and he presented the show for the rest of its runs between 1952 and 1966, when the show ceased production. This was a half-hour weekly show, produced by the
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Studies on the classification and interrelationships of the American pipefishes
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Studies on the Atlantic American pipefishes, with descriptions of new species.
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Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 July 2020).
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