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...believed in the serious salon. Dr. Robert Mearns Yerkes, famed Yale psychologist, visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature...
GRAY SHEEP-Dillwyn Parrish- Harper ($2). Dillwyn Parrish, brother of Anne Parrish, the Perennial Bachelor lady, last year came forward as another sharp-eyed anatomist of life's nobodies. Repugnantly dear to him is the tragicomedy of middling people-middling honest, middling happy, middling alive. He called his first novel Smith Everlasting. The Rev. Fred Rain of Gray Sheep is another victim of everlasting Smithness in body, mind and spirit-a figure at once lovable, pitiful and contemptible from the equivocal nature of Smithness, for which another name is stagnation...
...James Matthew Barrie, anatomist of sentiment: " 'I have lost the use of my right hand,' I announced, in sending to a charity auction the MS. of my play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. 'At the completion of that play my right hand (probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying...
William Harvey (1578-1657), English anatomist and physician, discovered the circulation of the blood for modern times, although Galen and the Egyptians had some conception of the fact...
John Hunter (1728-1793), Scotch anatomist and surgeon, taught students to observe nature; worked on immunity and rivalry of diseases, on dissection...