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INSIDE THE FISH, A "HOT" SUPPER. UPPER. 

 This puffy surgeon fish has gorged itself heavily 

 on radioactive algae, the common seaweed of the 

 Bikini Lagoon. The plant itself had previously ab-. 

 sorbed radioactive fission products deposited in 

 the water by the atomic bomb. Radioactivity of 

 the plants will last a long time, is not affected by 

 passing into the fish's stomach. Previous similar 

 dinners already digested and distributed about his 

 body are revealed by the radioactivity of regions 



in the neighborhood of nose and eyes. The fish 

 was not killed by the radioactivity, it being appar- 

 ently true that the more elemental the form of life, 

 the less it is affected by radiation. LOWER. 

 Radioactive algae. These "radioautographs" were 

 made by placing the subjects on a photographic 

 film overnight. They suggest Becguerel's 1896 dis- 

 covery of radioactivity when a key left near some 

 uranium-bearing pitchblende ore similarly "took its 

 own picture" on a piece of film. 



