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Scientists are not usually interested in philosophy or religion. Professional men, they are apt to find their profession exclusively engrossing. But Biologist John Scott Haldane, of Oxford University, is not content to breathe his last in the special atmosphere of his laboratory. He has attained a comprehensive view of life, reached "matured conclusions." The University of Glasgow invited him to lecture. He did, and this book, ambitious, anti-popular, significant, is the result. In it Biologist Haldane attempts to "bring consistency into the inheritance which has come to me individually in science, philosophy, and religion...
...snake venom is highly virulent;* Hindus have discovered, however, that if it is highly diluted and given as homeopathic doses, it is very stimulating to animals. Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, Indian plant biologist, in his books (Longmans, Green, U. S. publishers) declares the diluted venom stimulating to plants also...
...Raymond Pearl, famed biologist of Johns Hopkins University, was born and reared in Farmington, N. H. He well remembers two outstanding facts about New Hampshire society as he knew it during his young years...
Julian Sorell Huxley, biologist-writer grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's protagonist), eldest son of Leonard Huxley (editor, Cornhill Magazine), brother of Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer of lightly ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight...
...curator of reptiles at the N. Y. Zoological Park, and Miss Nellie Louise Condon, president of the Reptile Study League agreed with Dr. do Amaral. Salty sportsmen and story-tellers (Don Marquis, Owen P. White, Tex Rickard, Texas Guinan, Tex O'Reilly, William O. McGeehan) thought the Butantan biologist bigoted; suspected him of prohibition interests...