At 11 weeks of age, all mice were fasted overnight and underwent gallbladder ultrasonography to determine ejection fraction.

The Linnean Society of London has in its archives the manuscript of one of C. S. Rafinesque’s very early scientific papers, probably the first ever that he wrote on a carcinological subject. This paper, the original title of which is “Descriptions of Two New Genusses of Crustaceous Heterelos & Yalomus with their Figures”, had been sent by its author to Sir James Edward Smith, president of the Linnean Society, under cover of a letter dated “Palermo, 30th March 1811”, requesting publication “since the Linnean Society accepts com[m]unications from such as are not members”;[…]The corrections made at the Linnean Society involve precision of technical terms (e.g., the substitution of “claw” for “nail”, “serrate” for “sawed”), improvement of the Latin (genera for genusses, etc.), and — what may suggest that the assistant was not a native speaker of English — the blunting of gender distinctions literally translated in Rafinesque’s manuscript from the practice of the Romance languages (where he wrote “her structure” the Linnean Society would have it “its structure”). In a letter of 3 May 1812 from Palermo, Rafinesque thanked J. E. Smith “for your kind revision of my Paper on Bertolonia & your corrections of my italianisms”.[…]The text (pp. 1–11) is as follows: / “Descriptions & c. / Two Linnean genusses [“genera”] Cancer & Monoculus were composed of such numerous & different varieties of species, that modern zoologists have proved them to be no more two simple genusses [“genera”] nor even one or two Orders in the class of Insects but to form each a division of a whole class sufficiently different from the Insects & which contains more than 50 genusses [“genera”] according to Latreille (Histoire naturelle des Crustacés) while they amount nearly to 80 in my Manuscript delineation of [“the”] said class:[…]”

Some of her comments really came from left field. I have no idea what she was thinking.

She can juggle flaming torches.