154:, and in these roles he was able to secure funding to support the transfer of the Vanderbilt Foundation's collection of fishes from Stanford University to the academy, which also allowed for extensive renovations of the Department of Ichthyology. He was then involved in the transfer of Stanford University's collection of fishes and the
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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
128:, 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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during the Second World War and rose to the rank of captain in the
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George S. Myers; W.I. Follett; William A. Gosline (1974). "Earl Stannard Herald".
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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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A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes : North America
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