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Backbone of the exhibit was the Halsey Collection of more than 100 Wedgwood portrait medallions, which Franklin's contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
...Galapagos Islands, 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, were well-known to the old U. S. whalers; Darwin found there one more piece of evidence for his big theory; but modern newspaper readers first became aware of them when William Beebe landed there (1923), reported huge lizards, other peculiar fauna. Two years ago they flashed into the news, with a dramatic mystery no Sunday-feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come...
...FEATHER CLOAK MURDERS-Darwin and Hildegarde Teilhet-Crime Club ($2). Brave Baron von Kaz (The Ticking Terror Murders) reappears on U. S. territory to unscramble a murderous mess in the Hawaiian Islands. Out of the Baron's prowlings, tantrums, and passion for the beauteous Caryl, Authors Teilhet concoct a tale whose underpinnings are stouter than the average thriller...
...stack of his father's papers, but apparently he overlooked a youthful diary. Grandson Julian, also a biologist, found it after his father's death, last week published it with an introduction and notes. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage oj H. M. S. Rattlesnake, like Darwin's Diary of the Voyage...
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...