OCR Text |
Show High School Girls, Boys Urged to Hunt Rare Mice Species NEW YORK. One of the broadest broad-est scientific research programs ever undertaken has been launched by Dr. Clarence C. Little, director of the Roscoe B. Jackson laboratory labora-tory in Bar Harbor, Maine. He has urged the nation's high school boys and girls to attempt to trap and raise in captivity 13 species of mice that have eluded scientists for many years. These creatures, Dr. Little declares, de-clares, may provide the clues leading lead-ing to new discoveries in cancer cure work and a host of other baffling medical problems. Only by an extensive, nationwide nation-wide effort, he said, can enough different mice be captured and observed, ob-served, and this effort would be prohibitive in cost if left to specialists. special-ists. . By attracting the native curious-ity curious-ity and patience of high school science students to the problem, it can be accomplished quickly, Dr. Little believes, and at little cost. A widespread coverage of many geographic geo-graphic areas also would be effected. ef-fected. He emphasized that it was not merely a "mouse-collecting" project pro-ject that is planned. - "The students will not be engaged en-gaged in the routine confirmation of known facts but in actual exploration ex-ploration into a field not now covered," cov-ered," he said. "The thirteen genera gen-era of small mammals to be sought have never been domesticated and successfully bred in any laboratory for different investigations on cancer can-cer and other diseases, or for the study of inherited variations in the science of genetics." |