Word: cuvier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible dwelling place for the splendid unicorn, he was reluctantly relegated to the limbo of legend. But there were stories that cattle and other animals had been made to grow a single big horn by cutting their scalps and manipulating their horn buds. In 1827 famed Naturalist Georges Cuvier said that this was impossible, since the horn buds were integral parts of the animal's skull, and the frontal part of the skull was divided by a suture where it would be impossible for transplanted horns to grow...
Last week in Scientific Monthly, Biologist William Franklin Dove of the University of Maine showed that Cuvier was wrong. Dr. Dove's own researches had revealed that at birth the horn buds were not attached to the skull but were independent "centres of ossification." Accordingly, he decided to try making a unicorn of a day-old Ayrshire. Flaps of skin containing the horn cores were cut out and the cores were joined in the centre, at the top end of the suture in the bone...
...history, and of Agricola's De Re Metallica, and these will be brought out for the benefit of the public. One of Mercator's early atlases, will be included. From the seventeenth century, works by Galileo, Kepler, Napier, Pascal, and Newton have been chosen; and from the eighteenth, Priestly, Cuvier, Lamarck, Laplace and Linnaeus...