Dr. Minka Cosgrove writes [AIR 15:6]:
I disagree with Doris Morra (AIR Vents 15:4) and Sugreeva Baliga (AIR Vents 15:5) that Olivia Rausch is necessarily a moron. I of course agree with them that the photo in Rausch’s article (“Museum Treasures for Children,” AIR 14:7) does not show a “disused late-nineteenth century Prussian cannon shell” as Rausch claims, and that it is a piece of whale anatomy. We must, however, allow for the possibility that Rausch is an over-sheltered ignoramus. By the way, I, like Dr. Baliga, have a husband who has one exactly like it.