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Last week this Viennese biologist arrived in America, fresh from triumphs at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities, where he lectured on his work with fire salamanders and sightless newts, and convinced many of the leading British biologists of the validity of his findings. He was confined to his hotel room with a severe attack of grippe but was informally welcomed by Dr. Harry Benjamin (American disciple of Steinach) who knew him in Vienna, and a committee of eminent scientists, including Dr. David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
...Alich, of Paris, is the latest biologist to attempt a solution to the riddle of sex determination, which has attracted inquisitive minds since antiquity. The hope of using such knowledge consciously to control the sex of offspring for practical breeding purposes as well as sentiment, has perhaps moved them most. But while few geneticists are willing to make any predictions about such possibilities, many foremost investigators are working to reveal the actual mechanics of the sex causation process. Not less than 500 theories-the majority fanciful old wives' tales based on no laboratory investigation of living material-have been...
Theodor Koppanyi, young Viennese biologist, who claims to have succeeded in transplanting seeing eyes in small animals, is coming to America at the invitation of a Chicago hospital for a stay of a year or two to conduct more ambitious researches. So far his experiments have been confined to rats and rabbits, but in Chicago he hopes to work on monkeys and larger mammals...
Patrick Geddes (no relation to Eric and Auckland) is one of the most versatile geniuses of modern times and is distinguished in several lines of scientific and social endeavor. He is 69 years old and first became famous as a biologist and authority on sex. He is the co-author of Sex and of Evolution (in the Home University Library) and of The Evolution of Sex with Professor J. Arthur Thomson, editor of the great four-volume Outline of Science...
...evolution legislation similar to that recently defeated in Kentucky, said: "You need not punish these teachers of evolution. Men who believe they have the blood of brutes in their veins will never be martyrs for any cause." In a dispassionate and authoritative article in the New Republic, Vernon Kellogg, biologist, and Permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, summarized the present status of organic evolution. Quotations: "I do not know of a single living biologist of high repute-and I do not determine repute on a required basis of a belief in evolution!-who does not believe in evolution...